How to feed the world solve the energy crisis and global warming with one idea...

The planet earth, even though it has provided all that ever lived with home, shelter, and food since its birth many billions of years ago. Is suffering from a infestation of humans like never seen before. We are consuming its resources like there is no tomorrow. Well there isn't going to be a tomorrow it seems if we don't help old mother earth out.

If you ask religion the answer seems to be the earth is for us to use. If you ask a scientist the future seems to be disastrous and bleak.

If you can imagine one idea that could solve the crisis's upon us in say the next 50 years would you embrace it? Would 50 years be enough time to come up with alternative energy solutions.

I'm not the guy that can answer that directly but I have an idea for the world to examine and prove me wrong if you can. By throwing this idea out there I expect that a lot of people will punch some holes in it and others will certify it, however one thing is certain If we could make it work we all will win so here goes it.

First: we need to find a reasonable way to feed the world. We are losing a great deal of people due to sheer stupidity from how the worlds capacity to grow food is distributed.

Oh and lets not forget shipping. My god what it takes to ship and distribute food around the globe is absolutely staggering. From seed to table growing food takes fuel and lots of it. The farmer buys the seed it comes by truck. The farmer tills the soil with a tractor. Fertilizes it and cultivates with tractor. Ships it by truck to distributor. By truck to your store. And to the store you go in your automobile. We are consuming so much energy to get a loaf of bread its probable that if the energy costs keep going that loaf will probably be 5 times its present cost in a few more years.

My idea starts with raising our food crops in very large terrariums in low earth orbit. Why you ask because there is a lot of room up there. Solar cells work extremely well up there and the sun provides an unlimited source of heat energy. Water is the only problem I can see because it would take a lot of water to grow crops to feed the world. I expect we would shuttle the water to the terrariums and this would be the highest expense. If it were only for the food it might even be a little impractical .

By having these large terrariums in orbit they are literally blocking the sun. The bigger they are the more light they will block and we need this right now. We have so much of a greenhouse effect from the hydrocarbons we use we simply must block out as much as we can. I'm not suggesting we build terrariums so large that there are giant shadows across the globe but I bet you be able to see them with the naked eye.

Location, location, location and in orbit you have location. Anywhere on the globe you want to ship the food, you can do it with very little effort. Simply pack it up in a reentry vehicle and send it where it need to go.

I think it would be slow at first and I don't expect that it could provide us with all the food items we use. Lets presume for the moment we could raise just soy beans and corn. The amount of land that could be used for other purposes such as more trees, and the fuel and energy we could save by having food delivered to our doorstep. It would keep trucks, trains and ships from having to transport billions of tons of food items Bring down a little of the intensity of the sun by keeping the terrariums on the sunny side of earth. You would have no uncontrollable seasons or weather either.

I don't have designs or formulas saying this will work its just an idea and I believe it could work. Its only chance is if the world as a whole embraces the idea and wants it to work bad enough the people find a way.