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Although indoor vertical farming is going to be super expensive, it does have the possibility of huge benefits such as reducing contamination to the environment.


I like the idea of using genetic engineering to knock out certain species of pest, limited to the ones specialized to eat domesticated crops. You wouldn’t need to spray a cornfield if the corn moth was no longer around.

And, we could always keep a pristine population of the peat locked away in some vault if it turns out making them extinct in the wild was a bad idea.




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