3D Farming - A Vision for an Ideal Future

Are we humans careening headlong toward some kind of Blade Runner dystopian future, with ever larger human populations, existing in ever more crowded cities, while destroying the earth's ecosystem and most of the other species we share Earth with along the way?

Or will the 6th great extinction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction) collapse human populations along with bees, fish, millions of other species, polar ice caps, and rainforests (the lungs of the planet)?

I tend to think Mother Nature still runs the show, and while we can't predict at what point she'll have "had enough", at some point forests will come back without help from us (hubristic) humans, the atmosphere will recover, and Gaia primordial mother earth will continue as a life sustaining organism.

And, to get on my soap box for a minute, an idea like this one:

"humans means of long term survival will be to colonize Mars" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Mars)

falls into the category of smart people being incredibly stupid. It's right up there with the idea we can re-engineer human health using synthetic products from laboratories. The stupidity in both ideas is the same: the gross misapprehension of the vast complexity of the biology we are, and that which we evolved from, and are inextricably part of.

So, let's see here: we can destroy earth's life generation and sustainment capacity by some (pick a number) gross percentage, but then survive as a species by migration to a planet with absolutely no life generation and sustainment capacity? Hello! ...welcome back to planet earth.

The 1 trillion? (https://www.livescience.com/54660-1-trillion-species-on-earth.html) species spawned by earth's ecosystem, including us humans, are a product of that one ecosystem, dependent on it, and (new religion) technology will not change that. 

The hubris principle, subset of Freud's "death instinct" (https://www.verywellmind.com/life-and-death-instincts-2795847), says we will try, and population collapse will increase at that point. In fact this is a process already underway...have a look around.

We cannot predict with certainty what gross percentage of earth's living populations will have to collapse for an ecological reset to occur (it's probably a fibonacci ratio), but it's a process that could take centuries, with points of acceleration along the way. It's too big to "see" in real time, which is why we generally don't know it has already begun. Meanwhile life, as we know it, continues.

Let's do what we can to heal the earth by getting out of it's way. Let's also do what we can to heal our own personal health by getting out of our body's way. Let's stop buying into the idea we can live on toxic substances.

As a species we will have to find more efficient means of sustenance congruent with nature. Here's a stellar example, 3D farming, with biodiversity, a vision for an ideal future:

nationalgeographic.com/video/shorts/ 3D Farming