From my office, I can see literally tens of thousands of acres of fields growing things.
I have nothing against manufactured goods.
I do think that using solar panels and LEDs to replace "putting plants out in the sun" is, at best, of questionable usefulness. Cute at a small scale, useless at a large scale.
The US alone has ~900 million acres of farmland. You can do the math on the solar panel production required to make even a tiny dent in food production.
You are conflating your
OPINION based on CURRENT information/views (likely assumed but still reasonable IMO) with VISION....based on the current environment I am inclined to agree with you, but help me understand why you can't possibly envision this being possible and maybe even probable.
Its actually working quite well as food has never been more abundant, which is also why the cost of food has not grown in line with inflation of time....oh yeah we are also living longer because the medical advancements to fight nature...I hate it when nature loses I wish the tides would turn and go back to the good ole days when we died at 20, 40, 60.....really I can't believe we take advantage of nature that way, we suck as a species.
Have you paid attention to the growing antibiotic resistance of modern infections? We're likely to get back to that day at some point (probably in my lifetime) when nature wins big against the temporary gains of antibiotics. That we put them in damned near everything for the hell of it is not going to be viewed as one of the better decisions of our era.
Again, your
OPINION of one advancement that may prove to be bad but
HASN'T YET on a meaningful level, but maybe one day
COULD....although its funny how you have vision for the negative but not the positive areas of advancement. No Columbus, don't do it, the world is flat and you will fall off....
I agree with you that use of antibiotics are over-used and irresponsibly so, but I don't agree that it is a foregone conclusion that the antibiotics were, are, or will prove to be bad. Antibiotics, as used as an example of an historical advancement, has and continues to save countless lives. And while resistance is growing, we don't know if it will flatten out, decline, grow, or whether or not other treatments will be developed that will counteract it. We also don't know if resistance will get out of control and result in the next disastrous epidemic that kills millions and millions...that COULD happen too. We also don't know that this couldn't have happened regardless of over-prescription/use of them, but certainly it contributed to it and may be the only reason.
The difference between you and I is that you are using your
OPINION to make biased statements not based on fact, and I am merely providing ideas/advancements that have potential without a view on whether or not they are positive/negative/neutral because they could be any or all of those but the point is that they COULD be.