I'm not saying it won't be difficult just i don't see why it would lead to economic decline, the cost of water would increase but it would still be a job creating industry. Basically regardless of climate change people will find something to do that requires others people to pay. I think the core issue here (as it always is!!) isn't land or climate per se but energy. As long as theres an energy source we can use easily and cheaply we can grow food in factories the japanese already do this, iirc they tax agricultural imports quite heavily so factories that produce lettuce have been
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According to IEEE Spectrum Online: Of all the colors of the rainbow, red is lettuce's favorite. Chlorophyll, the electrochemical engine of photosynthesis, runs on red photons. So if you are growing the vegetable indoors in a factory, why waste energy on colors you don't need?
Using a red LED-based growth process developed by Cosmo Plant Co., in Fukuroi, Japan, instead of a fluorescent lighting based one, cuts a factory's electric bill by 60 percent, the company told Agence France Press.
Cosmo's customers uses the technology to produce 7000 heads of lettuce per day all year round in a 10-floor building on just 1000 square meters of space. The lettuce matures more than three times as fast under the LEDs than outdoors. While growing lettuce in an open field is still less costly, growing it inside under LEDs means you don't have to worry about crop-decimating typhoons and other nasty weather.
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Its essentially the same process used to grow cannabis in 'house farms'. The energy cost is the issue not the land, weather or technology.
nb regarding porn, i was thinking about this the other day, its probably an indication of the level of consumption globally that despite noone i know actually paying for porn its still valued as a billion dollar industry. The interesting thing is if porn stars will 'overtake' fashion models in income (lets say for appearance fees etc). I'm 'suspicious' of the number of celebrity sex tapes being released 'accidentally'. Its worth considering that 'one night in paris' could not have been released as a dvd without a model release form. One of her friends, who ive never heard of ('Kim Kardashian') has apparently had her own 'illicit' tape released and has according to wiki been payed $5 million for it. The thing is looking at the images of the tape it isn't the way sex necesarrily happens in my life anyway. Theres soft flattering lighting, wearing expensive lingerie, its looks polished. Now fair enough i may just be odd but its just a little...contrived to me. Ye olde tit girls and 'celebs' didn't have these types of sex scandals and perhaps it marks the begining of a transition to the fashion magazines and porn world colliding.