{"id":17128,"date":"2015-09-11T06:47:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/skyscraper-farms-lab-grown-meat-soylent-meeting-the-needs-of-the-21st-century-medium"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:41:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:41:55","slug":"skyscraper-farms-lab-grown-meat-soylent-meeting-the-needs-of-the-21st-century-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/skyscraper-farms-lab-grown-meat-soylent-meeting-the-needs-of-the-21st-century-medium","title":{"rendered":"Skyscraper Farms, Lab-grown Meat &amp; Soylent \u2014 Meeting the needs of the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/skyscraper-farms-lab-grown-meat-soylent-meeting-the-needs-of-the-21st-century.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meeting the basic needs of humanity is increasingly brought into question as we begin to resemble a cancer to the living organism we inhabit. As mass extinction continues to become an omnipotent reality, it\u2019s apparent that more humans equals more problems. To fix this, we have to approach them in the same way farmers do: with resiliency. Farmers try to nurture their crops and hope for the right season. Although, even the predictability of spring, summer and fall\u2019s outcome can be misleading. Nature has a way of leading things in the exact opposite direction than they seem to be headed. And it is those who\u2019ve treaded, but still embark that truly encounter the rewards. For if farmers were to give up after an adverse season, there\u2019d be no food next year. There\u2019d be no continuity of supply for society. There\u2019d be no method of feeding the hungry. No solution to ease the growing population and its rising demands.<\/p>\n<p>So, with exponential gain in human births this century, how do we combat such problems? One possible solution is to build \u201cgreen skyscrapers\u201d for the sole purpose of farming, where we are able to control the environment and have multiple levels of plant growth. This could be done by utilizing an array of mirrors to redirect sunlight to every floor, while supplementing with multi-spectral, energy-efficient LED\u2019s. With advanced humidity control and water-recycling techniques, we\u2019d contribute towards the global conservation of water and open up valuable land to reforestation \u2014 all through subjugating the unpredictability of nature. This ensures the utmost quality and care goes into producing local, high-quality food, with the added benefit of honing the technology needed for interplanetary colonization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@YawLife\/skyscraper-farms-lab-grown-meat-soylent-meeting-the-needs-of-the-21st-century-9234103555a5\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting the basic needs of humanity is increasingly brought into question as we begin to resemble a cancer to the living organism we inhabit. As mass extinction continues to become an omnipotent reality, it\u2019s apparent that more humans equals more problems. To fix this, we have to approach them in the same way farmers do: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1497,12,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-energy","category-existential-risks","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64254,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17128\/revisions\/64254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}