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Re:America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs by ahartman00 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:04PM (#12704902)
Nope. Its impossible. There is a finite amount of nutrients. Phosphorus turns out to be the limiting reagent. Then there are freshwater supplies, and other problems.

http://www.livescience.com/16493-people-planet-earth-support...

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Re:America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs by bryanlarsen on Friday October 14, 2016 @08:18AM (#12707578)
0.099% of the Earth's crust is phosphorus. If that's the limiting reagent, then that's very easy to fix with money.

Freshwater is synthesized from seawater now. If the GDP increases 10,000% it will be inexpensive.

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Re:America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs by ahartman00 on Friday October 14, 2016 @10:57PM (#12712529)
you are right. TIL

http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/01/phosphorus-essential...

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