Several recent research projects have determined that we can feed all the people on the entire planet using the African continent alone. In other words we could have 10 Billion people living on planet Earth and only farm on the African continent, yet still feed every single soul. Of course, there is a problem with this and that is there are not enough people on the African continent to farm enough crops to feed everyone in the world. Also they are not trained to do so, nor do they feel like working that hard for all the rest of us.
However, with proper motivation, advanced farming techniques, and robotic equipment it could be done. And the United Nations Habitat for Humanity committee is looking into this possible future. This does not mean that we should not watch the problems associated with runaway human population growth. That too is a problem.
Still, robotic farming equipment that is unmanned and borrows transfer technologies from military unmanned ground vehicles, and satellite GIS-GPS data, along with sophisticated supercomputers running the system could indeed provide a productivity to make all this happen.
Luckily, all this technology currently exists now and would only be a matter of implementing it all and setting up desalination plants for the freshwater needs. If we started now, within a decade we could pull it off. Is the human race ready for such a massive project in undertaking? Or will the political infighting of nations around the world prevent this from ever coming to be?
On this topic I suppose that futurists and science fiction authors will probably disagree. Please consider all these possible futures.
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