Food=Life
Currently we've all been researching about food, about how its raised, grown, slaughtered, and
processed through a machine. We have all this, but for how long? Food is obviously an important
necessity and so is water. To grow your own plants you need water, and you need plants to feed the
animals to later use them as food. In this article "Global Security Under Climate Change"
Schmidhuber and Tubiello explain the changes that will happen to food growth in the
future. Because of how much the world is almost overpopulated we start using our natural
resources more which causes more dry land and less plants. I realize more of these
processed foods with artificial flavors come into play because of how much natural
resources were losing, it's a substitute. As human beings today, most of us
don't care what we eat as long as it tastes good like seriously if something is given to us that
is processed by the government some of us wouldn't question what it would be. In the
article a prediction was made that by the end of the 21st century food will be harder to
produce due to the fact of how dry the land will be, although this is just a theory based on a
model it may be a future possibility.
At a certain point something is going to have to change. The easiest route, what they've always done, is figure out the cheapest way to skirt around the problem. Maybe they'll come up with synthetic soil that the can pump full of fertilizer via machine. Maybe they'll just figure out how to grow food from scratch, there's already some advancement in growing beef with the rest of the cow attached to it. They should really try to come up with a solution that doesn't just end up causing more problems later, but that's not how people work. It's an "I'll cross that bridge when I get to it." kind of mindset, except we keep making more bridges to cross.
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