[quote=@catchamber]
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I never said you are responsible, just that mentalities like yours are responsible. You're not the first person to throw around the "I don't care about the future, because I'll be dead" argument.

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If you're so concerned about the ineffectiveness or naïvety of my ideas, feel free to contact Australia, the Blest Company, Delft University of Technology, Facebook, Google, the Li-Fi Consortium, Maastricht University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the People's Republic of China, Qatar, Rice University, Samsung, the University of Southampton, and many other companies, countries, and universities that are currently working on the pieces of this proposal as we speak.

I'm sure they'll appreciate your profound insights into how the world works, and immediately drop all of their plans once you explain why their goals are infeasible.
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Nice strawman, I did not say the technologies are naïve. Let's assume for a moment that the companies working on these technologies are not doing so in order to have a parade horse. 

What I said was - sending this to our governments is useless, because not a government in the world will drop millions of (insert currency) on projects that are to benefit the whole of mankind without expecting some sort of return for it. You are asking them to drop millions onto constructing vertical farms? 

What's the benefit of that for them if they can already supply enough food for [i]their[/i] populace without them? You want them to go and give it to Africa [i]for free?[/i] That's the part that's naïve. That you are expecting all of this to happen 'for the betterment of mankind' just because your moral compass tells you it's the right thing. It might be the right thing, that doesn't mean that there will be an incentive to do any of this in the middle of world-wide crises like the financial crises, geo-political situations like ISIS and other terrorist organizations as well as governments that are unwilling to take care of their own citizens or are unwilling to cooperate with other states.