{"id":23517,"date":"2016-03-09T18:05:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/An-interesting-proposal-and-as-vertical-urban-farms-and-other-such-advances-become-commonplace-probably-a"},"modified":"2016-03-09T18:05:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:05:04","slug":"an-interesting-proposal-and-as-vertical-urban-farms-and-other-such-advances-become-commonplace-probably-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/03\/09\/an-interesting-proposal-and-as-vertical-urban-farms-and-other-such-advances-become-commonplace-probably-a\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting proposal, and as vertical urban farms and other such advances become commonplace, probably a&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>An interesting proposal, and as vertical urban farms and other such advances become commonplace, probably a realistic one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a point of reference, New Zealand already has about 25% of its land area in national parks and other protected natural areas, and this is in a country where agriculture is traditionally one of the largest industries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by David Brin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Half Earth, E. O. Wilson suggests that humans set aside roughly 50 percent of the planet as a sort of permanent preserve, undisturbed by man.  I portrayed this happening in the future\u2026 and it will\u2026 once we get past these crises and use asteroids to get rich\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/01\/science\/e-o-wilson-half-earth-biodiversity.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=science&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=7&amp;pgtype=sectionfront&amp;_r=0\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/01\/science\/e-o-wilson-half-earth-biodiversity.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=science&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=7&amp;pgtype=sectionfront&amp;_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        An interesting proposal, and as vertical urban farms and other such advances become commonplace, probably a&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/03\/09\/an-interesting-proposal-and-as-vertical-urban-farms-and-other-such-advances-become-commonplace-probably-a\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}