Peter Joseph says I consider this my most important lecture. I agree, It is the most powerful lecture out there. My favorite factoid was the vertical farming data. It inspired me to learn aquaponics and I am about 3/4 done building a system right now. Of course, that is only on the fact and data side of the lecture. There was so much else covered as far as train of thought, the need for new awareness and also clear cut insight into the inherent flaws in the capitalist system. And wait... the extensively covered solution of an RBE, spelled out in full. POWERFUL!!! Heres the small part that blew my mind the most.... From the lecture Economic Calculation in an NL/RBE by Peter Joseph... According to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: 30 - 50% (or 1.2 - 2 billion tonnes) of all food produced never reach a human stomach. Figure does not reflect that large amounts of land, energy, fertilizers and water have also been lost in the production of food stuffs which simply end up as waste. Students at Columbia University determined that to feed 50,000 people, 30 Story farm on 6.4 acres = feed 50,000 people. Using these numbers to calculate: 78 farms, using 0.1% Los Angeles land Area = feed 3.9 million Apply this to earth population of 7.2 billion. We would need about 144, 000 vertical farms to feed the whole world. 921,000 acres of land. To complete the thought experiment: About 38% of earths land is currently being used for traditional agriculture, we find that we only need about .006% of the earths existing agricultural land. If the current agricultural acreage was used instead, to put 30 story vertical farms side by side, then the food production would be enough to feed 34,440,000,000,000 (34 trillion people). We only need to harness about 0.02% of this theoretical capacity to feed 9 billion (2050 population). Makes any argument moot.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 03:33:19 +0000
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