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Nope. Good old American oak.

All valid points.

BUT, the kind of thing this article is talking about is indoor growing, not out in the wild, and with a significant amount of automation ... you know like this.

The statistics for this incredibly successful indoor farming endeavor in Japan are staggering: 25,000 square feet producing 10,000 heads of lettuce per day (100 times more per square foot than traditional methods) with 40% less power, 80% less food waste and 99% less water usage than outdoor fields.

So, really ... are you so sure about what you said? Because it sounds like the technology to start doing this on a sizable scale already exists.

Yes, because cities buried underneath water and hidden for thousands of years are a complete and utter myth. http://weburbanist.com/2013/04... and I am the troll HA HA HA.

This is the basic difference between conservatives and progressives. Conservatives have now imagination and their primary drive is to hoard. The basic income they imagine is a bunk in barracks style room, a bowl of gruel, and a nondescript jumpsuit (probably orange). They imagine "those" basic income people will lay in a stupor, wallowing in what has been given them, sleeping, and raping, and contributing nothing.

You don't have to look beyond America's prisons to see the fallacy in this train of thought.

Progressives imagine people with a basic income that allows them to cover their own basic needs and spend their time creating, gardening, helping their neighbors, decorating things, and eventually building businesses or small trading operations.

Wasn't this basically the same as the VR systems they had 10 or so years ago. The large head mounted displays, the circular "area". Think 'Hackers", or this : http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Virtual-Reality.gif

Well, if you've got a bunch of 'em...

Nobody makes the obvious point.

Some areas could become 'increasingly marginal as places to live in,' the report concludes.

Great. And how is this different from before ? My grandfather left north holland because it became too cold. Before that I'm told that a few dambreaks (presumably caused either by storms, rising sea level, or in the worst case incompetence) cause my family to leave a place between Amsterdam and Zeeland. That's just the last 200 years, maybe less (I only have generations to go on, not years. And there sure were a lot of dambreaks in the 19th century).

This is not an exception. Just read this : http://weburbanist.com/2008/07/06/20-abandoned-cities-and-towns/.

That's again just the last century (and not all climate related, some are though). But going further back there's plenty of stuff. 2000 years ago, the Sahara was lush green forest, filled with civilized black people (not arabs, who since exterminated them) who at one point dared attack Rome, and there was serious concern that campaign might succeed (and it did manage to cast aside 4 Roman legions, 3 in less time than it took the senate to notice their legions were gone, never mind decide what to do about it. They didn't do anything about it). The only reason there are Europeans in Europe is climate change in Eastern Asia. This is not news.

Where do we get the weird idea that climate was constant before today ? Where do we get the massive egocentric idea that it will start staying constant for us ? Gaia is a fickle godess that constantly slays things from houses, to cities, to entire states.

I am not saying that "there isn't something going on", but I do remember being taught how Darwinism categorizes species : adapt ... or die.

The whole strategy that seems to be pushed implicitly here seems to me a strategy that falls squarely in the latter category. Trying to keep things constant is not just a losing strategy, it's the way to extinction.

So open the joker up an desolder the antenna. I bet a business could make good money supplying modified for this sort of use Xboxes and updates via usb.

Prisoners may not be smart but they do have a lot of time on their hands. These people make cross-bows out of paper, saliva and pencils so I'm fairly certain they could figure out how to resolder an antenna.

http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/10/insane-prisoner-inventions-24-diy-prison-tools-weapons/

http://weburbanist.com/2009/04/11/a-series-of-tubes-pneumatic-networks-past-present-futurama/

I believe this man has accomplished it for well under a nickel.

Well maybe not stock it wont, but if you do this to it. http://weburbanist.com/2009/01/19/rocket-and-jet-powered-vehicle-designs/ It might give it enough kick =)