Future farming
I was interested to see that farming is to get a boost in coming years. This will please my father no end, as he has been banging on at me for years about how farming is the industry to get in to. Its also interesting to read about farming being spoken about in terms of sustainable futurism, as for quite a few years now we have been bombarded with views telling us that all farming will be done elsewhere in superior climates and imported, leaving our countryside as a twee museum.
This also got me thinking about the discrepancy between the science fiction versions of future cities and future countrysides - in all science fiction we read about how everybody lives in ever-expanding megacities (perfectly reasonable supposition) and outside the city walls lies an irradiated wasteland patrolled by cannabalistic mutants. Why do they always posit this scenario? Why can't the countryside be equally scientific and progressive? How would a non-apocalyptic future countryside look and who would live there?
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