Dr. Jonathan Foley
1 min readAug 19, 2018

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None of these technologies can come even remotely close to scaling to the size that would ever matter to the global food system.

Remember, agriculture is HUGE. It covers 40% of the Earth’s land surface, and 75% of that is for meat.

And vertical farms grow little more than greens — not the staple crops that feed the world.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley
Dr. Jonathan Foley

Written by Dr. Jonathan Foley

Executive Director, Project Drawdown. Climate & environmental scientist, working on solutions. Personal views.

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