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A Figure Like That<br />

FORTY-TWO<br />

Sophie Bunnings had been reading up about<br />

this food issue for quite some time now;<br />

although her final dissertation and project at<br />

university had been entirely focused on the<br />

environmental logistics of infectious diseases<br />

due to ecosystem changes, she had read a bit<br />

about different farming techniques and the<br />

vertical farming technique idea had looked like<br />

an excellent idea in the twenty-one twenties,<br />

with shorter distances from producers to<br />

consumers, the no need for pesticides or<br />

fertilisers plus the reduced water usage all had<br />

obvious economic, environmental and social<br />

benefits. Unfortunately, as always, the property<br />

prices in central urban areas had pretty much<br />

killed this idea very quickly and this was still the<br />

same, especially with extra migration to the<br />

country. Before the invention of the cloth<br />

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