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High-tech farmers sow seeds of revolution in Dubai desert:
An ultra-modern vertical farm in the middle of the desert stands as a testament to Dubai's determination to spark a "green revolution" to overcome its dependence on food imports.
Al-Badia market garden farm produces an array of vegetable crops in multi-storey format, carefully controlling light and irrigation as well as recycling 90 percent of the water it uses.
"It's a green revolution in the middle of the desert," the farm's director Basel Jammal [says].
[...] That was not an issue decades ago when the area was sparsely inhabited by Bedouins.
But the wealth generated by oil discoveries since the 1970s sent expatriates flocking to the UAE.
Dubai now has more than 3.3 million inhabitants of 200 nationalities, relies largely on expensive desalinated water, and its food needs have grown and diversified.
Will hydroponics be cheaper than importing food?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by anubi on Thursday August 20 2020, @02:14AM (6 children)
Food.
That is just another noose someone else can not use to compel you to their command.
Dependency is a bad thing. Not everyone is just, compassionate, understanding, or nice.
It's a fishbowl full of piranhas at the executive leadership level.
Star Trek explored this meme in "Far Point".
Talk to the many peoples that have been on the losing end.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 20 2020, @03:07AM (3 children)
???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday August 20 2020, @03:35AM (2 children)
Well, if you can feed yourself, others cannot use a food sanction against you with devastating result.
It carries extreme risk to depend on someone else for anything. Monopoly pricing ensues. Unless you have a free market.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 20 2020, @03:49AM (1 child)
A big IF keeping into account that's far easier to destroy than it is to grow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday August 20 2020, @10:21AM
That damn entropy thing again...
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @04:08AM
So, you oppose the idea of welfare states?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @07:46AM
I am sad to report that not nearly as many of us want to be free as the ultra-left liberals like to pretend.
The domineering you see from radical ideologies (whatever definition they qualify under) is quite apart from actual common human wants and needs. Most people just want to be minimally comfortable, to the point of complacency, and only need the minimums required to maintain them there. This is not meant to belittle the people who are actually struggling for a better life, just to say that for every one that is (not including the ones who are successful) there are 9 other plebs derailing their efforts through complacency that breeds corruption, leading to the kind of power imbalances we see in places like Dubai, but also are more commonly seeing in some countries in the West, where seeing how little you can give the common person before they snap has become an 'elite' past-time.