Vertical Farming: The Ideas Of Vertical Farming And The Environment

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Every day, thousands of babies are being born all around the earth, meanwhile our homeland earth is running out of enough space for living, farming and running out of clean drinkable water; Millions of people are desperate for any job opportunities. ’’ By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth’s population will reside in urban centers’’ . It is estimated that the population of the earth will increase by about 3 billion people by that time and 80% percent of the usable lands for raising crops will be in use . Vertical farming is one the ideas to move forward towards a healthier and more manageable future for all the human, as well as wildlife and our environment. “Ecologist Dickson Despommier argues that vertical farming is legitimate …show more content…

Safe and efficient methods of recycling organic wastes as well as the recycling of water wastes from sewage systems will be implemented.
Vertical farms, are the new generation of buildings and skyscrapers which allows indoor farming that provides enough source of food that that can satisfy all residence of the building or more. The only way that this high-rise food producing building will succeed, is by “mimicking ecological process” which can be achieved by proper re-cycling of organic and water from all type of wastes. Reducing pollution and increasing environmental friendly technologies, such as solar panels, are great ways to produce clean energy.
Vertical farming, comes with a lot of advantages, good for our future and the environment. Vertical farms are able to provide enough source of food for the entire building. There are very low chances of crops failure due to weather, since it will be completely controlled. It creates high amount of job opportunities for unemployed people. Lowest amount of waste; in vertical farms, recycling, takes a very important part in managing the building. Saving water, re-using black and gray water by filtration to drinking water. Reduce using fossil fuels, one of the main source of pollution on the air, with sustainable and enviro-friendly technologies, such as solar panels to produce enough energy for running the

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