Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture

BRILLIANT! This guy is proposing making concrete caves!

your a dumb fuck. IBM is an american company and at that did not even exist in the era of Nazi germany. Go back to school you idiot.

They need to employ permaculture in Africa. In fact they need to employ it all over the world. We are wasting the land by current popular farming methods. They are very poor methods.

This is amazing!! This is wonderful! i really want him to succeed, I hope he achieves this!

Its always the poor who suffer. Be it population control or climate change. We wanna force the poor to use contraceptives and so stop their society from propagating. We wanna force them to buy "clean" energy while they can barely afford to run a wood burning stove. We make energy more and more expensive and unattainable for them.

While we in the west can turn up the heating, waste more food, drive bigger cars, consuming more resources then buy "carbon credits" while the 3rd world starves.

The world easily has enough resources to feed a population of more than 10bn. But this would mean developing regions of the world so that they can lead a sustainable lifestyle. The haves need to contribute to the have nots so that everyone gets an equal share of the resources. This will never happen. $700bn to save banks, nothing to save poor!

Its a world where IMF and World Bank sanctions force the 3rd world to export its produce to the developed world. Sustainable development is only a dream.

In the United States alone, if we didn't consume animal products and instead used the farm land for fruits and vegetables, we would not only be able to complete the diets of the underfed people in this country, but we could feed 800 million more people.

More children is not a religious thing, its an economical thing. More children = more chances of survival. The more children you've got the more contribution of income in your family. In a society where the life expectancy is barely 40yrs, having one kid per family and population control is not the first thing on people's mind.

Its food, shelter, work, water and such things that are more important. Hence merely educating and contraceptives will do nothing. You need a sustainable infrastructure.

Actually population control is a very real thing. And yes you will not hear lobbyists talking about such things because all these talks happen behind closed doors.

There is a very deliberate attempt to let the 3rd world starve and die as it'll reduce the "burden" on the planet. The developed world easily has enough resources to feed every single person on this planet but it still keeps 99% of resources for itself while people in africa die by hundreds every day. The world is a business.

That is pretty cool.
But i doubt how strong those structures would be. Like I would be scared of it collapsing sometime onto the people inside.
But I think thats just a minor obstacle.

This guys should go ahead and build a few prototypes and see how it goes. If it works then its something the governments should really invest into. It gives shelter for the people and protects arable land.

Governments can spend $700bn to bail a few of bankers but barely a million/bn to progress the 3rd world!