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Re:Space tech to give arid countries food surplus
on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @03:25AM (#28680191)
These people never learn, this paper[0] is worth a read.
Despite the narrative of novelty touted by these companies, this is not the UAE's first foray with bringing ultra-modern or 'scientific' greenhouses to the Arabian Peninsula – a large University of Arizona project did so in Abu Dhabi from 1969-1974. Yet that project is largely forgotten today, including among today's new AgTech entrepreneurs. This article investigates why this is the case and, more generally, why the systematic failures of high-modernist, spectacular projects like those to green the desert are so routinely forgotten.[0]
[0]https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/i...