Food, Humanity, Habitat and How We Get to 2050
Quarter 1
Article 5
NY times
Miller Chapter
In 2050 the population of the world is projected to rise to 9.1 billion. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, it will require a 70 percent increase in global food production, partly because of population growth but also because of rising incomes. How can this be accomplished? It may be possible by increasing productivity on current agricultural acreage and by greening parts of the world that aren’t now arable. However, this will be difficult to accomplish while preserving biodiversity. Preserving biodiversity is another one of th UN's goals. This all can be accomplished through a new idea of food equity, a fairer and far more balanced way of sharing and distributing food to reduce the devastating imbalance between the gluttony of some nations and the famine of others. It will mean that we all have to do what we can — wherever we live — to localize and intensify food production. Above all, it will mean restraint, in order to protect, and perhaps one day increase, the remaining biodiversity.
I think that this goal can be accomplished. However, each person needs to want to make it happen. That goal above all will be most difficult. The United States contributes mass amounts waste and uses much more than it needs, while developing countries do not have nearly enough to survive. This may be possible if each nation passes laws to balance food distribution in the future. But, I see this as highly unlikely considering the greed of the United States and nations like it.
Vocabulary:
population growth: increase in the number of people who inhabit a territory or state
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