The solution to the food shortage affects not only those in the poor countries but also those in the countries and cities that are rich. The solution that I believe can help solve two of the worlds problems. All the countries of the world should ration the food that they have to the minimum that a person can consume and give the rest to the countries that need it. That way the obesity problem and the growing world population will be fed. There is enough food in the world to feed everyone in it, but there is no way to solve the growing problem that the pollution is causing...the damage is done and there is no going back.
I completely agree with Jamil with the idea of food rationing, it is not something which should be impose to all of us, it’s more of a need we all should have, I see people asking for more that what they can consume, ordering food in restaurants to just take a bite and throw the rest away. There should be programs to make people conscious of the problem we face over the world, and incentives from the government to recycle and help the environment, even if this means that we stop producing some goods which we don’t really need.
The problem with the food in the world is that we have the idea that there will be always food to feed us so we don't really look at it as if it was a problem but we might react too late when it dissapears due to how we waste a huge amount of it in every day of our lives. It's incredible how the people in the restaurant throw away the food such a garbage without think for a minute in the homeless people that probably have not try any kind of food for a while. I personally believe that one possible solution for this huge problem is to stablish a law that punishes the waste of food in both houses and restaurants as well. Most of it can be donate it to people who don't have the resources to feed themselves and families. It's almost impossible to control this issue but working together we can propose possible solutions to this problem that can fix the hunger for thousands of people.
The richer you get, the greedier you are- developed countries of the world do little to help deal with this global crisis because of the cost associated with it! In areas like the sub-Saharan Africa, people are stuck in a socioeconomic limbo, in order to be productive you have to be well nourished, so productivity will remain nonexistent until basic human needs are met. This is an issue that will stay with us and the world as a whole for a very long time.
It is essential, in nature, to expand. To expand is nature’s nature. Plants are born of seeds. Humans come from fetuses, fetuses from sperm cells and egg cells, etc. Further more, cultures of bacteria are born from a single bacterium just as a an entire society is birthed from something far simpler. One of the fundamental laws that govern our understanding of this planet is that its mass is fixed, that is, the boundary that makes up the shape of the earth is neither contracting nor expanding. Through simple logic one can deduce that constant expansion within a fixed boundary is impossible indefinitely. There is a time where the expansion will reach the limit of the given boundary and either stop expanding or will have to alter or destroy the original boundary.
(cont) Nature has employed its own set of boundaries; predator populations in an ecosystem check and balance the populations of herbivores, just as the herbivores check and balance the population of certain plant species etc. The will of nature in a certain species is to propagate its own kind indefinitely. The species will multiply itself until its pattern is disrupted by an external force or it consumes all of its resources. Either way, its expansion is always halted by something outside of itself. These facts create a huge problem for the human species. Human beings have evolved a consciousness that allows us to manipulate our surroundings in such a way that we can surpass the laws of equal exchange that govern the rest of nature. Agriculture has allowed us to sustain ourselves within an exponentially growing population. However, we’ve ignored the most fundamental laws of survival whilst in the midst of our self-gratifying belligerency. Our endeavors have irreversibly altered the climate of this planet, placed us in the predicament of the attainment of fuel due to our dependence on oil and other unsustainable resources, which are beginning to dwindle, and raised the problem of a growing population and a shrinking food supply.
(cont) In regards to the climate problem, I’m inclined to agree with Jamil. I do believe we have reached the critical line and the affects of our pollution are irreversible. A recent study has shown that even if we stop all carbon emissions today, the Earth would not reach its normal state for another 1000 years. As a species I still believe we are responsible for becoming as sustainable as we can in our usage of energy, regardless of the fact that penalties for blindly polluting are on their way. However, the growing population and the food supply are problems that I believe are in our range of tackling, though I believe the solutions to these problems will require a very dramatic shift in the mental paradigms that guide our livelihood. In terms of the exponentially growing population, I think we are going to have to place some kind of regulation on the amount of children one can have. However it is done, I think this step is unavoidable, and it requires going against our very nature which is to propagate the species. We cannot hope to keep expanding our food production without significantly altering the rest of the environment more than we already have. This means we have to control our populations. This means partaking in all acts that lead to less population. Higher education opportunities in impoverished nations, for one; it is shown statistically that college graduates tend to have less children than families of whose members did not graduate from college. Equal rights to both sexes in nations that have little to no rights for their women, I believe is another important step. Women with access to more opportunities are apt to explore other aspects of their nature other than house keeper and mother. And I believe we need a dramatic reform in the way we handle foreign aid. I think we need to come up with regulations for the amount of food that is served at restaurants. The amount of food we can purchase per family needs to be regulated as well. This means a lot of infringements on what we call our freedom. Our freedom, unfortunately is not free at all. It is stolen from the mouths of the starving, from the pockets of the impoverished, and from the labor of the exploited. Colonization has made it practically impossible for certain nations to sustain themselves and have forced them into our pocket by turning their food crops into our cash crops. Our very idea of American freedom is based on this, and in order to tackle this looming monster of a problem that is our growing population and food shortage, that way of thought is going to have to be abolished.
i believe everyone will be affected in a few years of food shortage. not only the poor countries will be affected its going to continued on to rich countries also. food will become more pricier and economies will continue to drop. this will create even more problems in the world. i believe the only solution is if we start creating more and more food using natural sources and should make rations of food smaller so there will be more food to go around. especially it will help all obesity in this world. it will solve most of the problems but usually where you solve a problem you create a new one which is an never ending cycle of problems.
Unfortunately, we are living in a world where stratification is very obvious and is a problem. It is so disappointed to see how the income and wealth is unequally distributed around the world. The people that need basic things to survive are unable to get them while others not only meet their basic needs in excess but obtain their desire and request as well. I believe that if we are able to minimize the degree of inequality around the world it will be a start to end poverty in the world. I am aware that inequality can also bring about some benefit such as individual effort, competition, repartition of roles and statuses. However, it become a problem when all the goods are concentrated in only a small group of people that exploit the poorer instead of helping them achieve. In short, we need to start sharing our goods with others.
As citizens of the western world, we need to learn how to consume less in order to reserve more resources for other countries. The more people populate the earth, the more mouths need to be fed and therefore the more food that needs to be produced. Fields used for crops are growing in space until eventually there will be no more room for them to inhabit. There is no effective way to limit population growth, because it's really no one's right to tell a family how many children to have. Unfortunately, times of disaster that cause a great number of deaths actually help the earth by allowing others to have their portion of food, water, etc. It is a sad but true fact that deaths actually help. People in Western Europe as well as American need to learn to consume less and allow more resources and food to be used on third-world citizens so they can feed themselves. Schools should teach students about nutrition and ways to not waste food. Rations should be taught to prevent people from overusing food resources.
Educating people is one of the most important steps toward ending food ‘shortage. It is true that educating take a lot to resources but at the end of the day we are paid off. I think that the richest country should try to invest in educating people of poor countries. After all, we are all in the same boat because the environment is polluted we all pay the consequences. The world is like the body, if the arm is broken all the body feel the pain and suffer. When people are educated they are more aware of their actions and can see their future consequences. Educating the people will help them to think better of way they can use to manage food, to cultivate, and to use infrastructure to ameliorate harvest. This is why I claim if anything starts with education and it will finish with success.
In a world where underconsumption and hyper-consumption are propagated as radically contrastive realities, we find ourselves collectively awestruck with the fear of impending chaos. In the developed countries, it is an economic strategy to inundate the social environment with the overproduction of material items and overly-nutritious sources of sustenance. Then, through subsequent conditioning, we find ourselves yearning for luxuries that had never been essential to happiness or contentment from the beginning. The obesity rates have climbed to approximately 20-30% depending on the particular state; also, with obesity as a contributing factor, diabetes continues to afflict 1 out of 10 Americans--- and the number is on a substantial rise. In order to create a world where the resources available can sustain the populace, there is an emergent necessity for the control of population. To uphold the international laws and regulations that would undermine sporadic growth, it is essential that a form of world council is implemented (united nations would not suffice). A particular form of Unity will need to be reached in order for the exhaustingly competitive nations to come in synchronous agreement. It is irrelevant whether overt warfare is not rampant between developed nations; economic war is being waged worldwide. To narrow the brackets of injustice, humans would have to be catalyzed into the spontaneous desire to bring it about. The opiated masses embody a state of desensitization, where the exploitation and conquest of the natural world is then utilized to constrain our hope for progression.
The issues presented in this post are numerous and daunting. Issues like poverty, unclean water supplies, thinning resources, and poor or nonexistent education systems, and there is no quick fix for any of them. Most of all measures to solve these problems that would be sustainable are very expensive. Lowering water consumption from agriculture could be achieved with drip irrigation systems, but these are very expensive to install. Water sterilization in developing countries is also very expensive. As far as greenhouse gases, it is possible to harvest methane for energy but once again people would run into a money issue. Every plausible solution to help people across the world, like building schools and infrastructure is a money issue. Without increasing support to aid organizations none of these ideas will ever reach fruition. If the monetary concerns with solving these problems could be overlooked then it would be important to consider sustainable energy possibly from windmills or solar panels, as well as creating more jobs on farms so that less pesticides would be required for large crop yields.
How can we even start making positive social changes if our own mayor is being ousted BY THE PEOPLE because he’s raising property taxes for the well being of our city. When we look at a nation like France, and wonder why a french lifestyle is so wonderful, and why they have so many free services such as college education, and transportation, we fail to realize that they have those privileges because they pay taxes for those purposes.
It wouldn’t surprise me if those greedy selfish people that supported the petition to oust a man who just restored funding to domestic violence shelters, food banks, and transit, are the same people who don’t give a damn about fair trade, organic farming, or preserving open spaces.
We, the people, have the power to change our government. When I went to Germany for a few weeks I noticed that their environmental laws are far more harsh than ours. They recycle just about everything. Every household is required to have a compost bin, a paper bin, and a glass/plastic bin. A few years ago in California, styrofoam was finally made illegal. In Miami, we could all seek alternatives in the way we consume food and dispose of our trash.
For one I recommend for all of us Miami Dade students and faculty to use our resources, and join CROPS (Community-Rooted Organic Produce Services). For a reasonable price, you could be consuming fresh, local, organic produce brought to our own Wolfson Campus twice a month. Versus paying more at a local Publix, where you’d consume, chemical induced produce, grown in farms that promote slave labor.
I know at this moment I can’t stop the nearest bulldozer in west Florida that is destroying natural habitats for more condominiums. But I know I can create earth. For one, I can compost and make fertilizer and donate it to local farms and gardens.
The One Child Policy or Food Rationing isn’t something the United States is worrying about, just yet. But just because it isn’t forced upon us yet, doesn’t mean we can’t make our lifestyles more sustainable and even more importantly, change our views to more humble ethical ones.
Globally there will be enough food for a growing world population, but hundreds of millions of people in developing countries will remain hungry and many of the environmental problems caused by agriculture will remain serious. Population growth will slow down and many people will be better fed. As a result, the growth in demand for food will be lower. The pressure starting from agriculture on natural resources will continue to increase, but at a slower pace than in the past. christopher galvez
This has been ongoing crisis for a while now and there’s little to no chance that it will ever get solved. It would be extremely difficult to control how much this country consumes and Americans will most likely not conform with the idea of limited food intake. It’s not an impossible issue to change but will be very hard to accomplish. A possible way to help other suffering countries is by assigning the richest countries to another ailing country but always keeping in mind that the more aid we provide other people with, the more we will have to pay from our taxes. It’s an issue that is complicated and requires a lot of input from ourselves and everyone else in the world.
There are many ways of fixing overpopulation and increase food production however it is difficult to get people to agree on the solutions. As many people agree we can start by rationing our foods and give our leftovers to other third world countries. We can also pass laws for population control though it is a very controversial matter in some countries. However this extreme will most likely balance out our population and increase food production. If our population is not under control we will end up with famine and total chaos. We could also spend our time and money researching on how to colonize other planets to reduce our potential overpopulation.
I believe that the problems we face now are due to lack of education. People must be educated on the fact that we are exhausting our planets resources are an astonishingly rapid rate. Governments of the world must present a unified front on this issue, when we educate the people, they can help end the problem. A major issue in this matter is greed. No one wants to invest in anything long term and look at the now and not the future. Someone wrote in their post that we should ration our food and send the rest to developing nations; this would be extremely difficult to do without implementing a state of martial law. As I mentioned above, people need to be educated on the issues that we face and find a way to come together. People need to realize that we cannot put a price tag on saving our planet; we need to stop fighting wars ad use our money to find healthier forms of farming, improving health care and finding a feasible solution to population growth. If we improve health care we can improve infant mortality and thus paving the way for people to not need to constantly reproduce.
"Asiatic countries and their economy largely depend upon agriculture. With the technological breakthrough, significant level of food grain production has been achieved and large stocks of food grains have been piled up to meet exigencies.... Globally, the problem of hunger is now more related to what Amartya Sen, in the paper entitled “Population and Reasoning”. Refers to as “entitlements,” not to food production lagging behind population growth." - http://www.msclasses4ias.com/In_News/Food_security.php
All around the world everyone have their way of living, some may have more then others. while, Some may not have nothing at all. Just take this for an example most people are trying to do something about with the movement that's called "Go Green" when going green with your food if you eat meat, add one meatless meal a week. Meat costs a lot at the store-and it's even more expensive when you consider the related environmental and health costs. Buy locally raised, humane, and organic meat, eggs, and dairy whenever you can. Purchasing from local farmers keeps money in the local economy. Whatever a person is on a diet or not, eat low on the food chain. Because a average person body only consume a certain amount of food at a time. Which with the rest can be sent to low poverty countries who don't have that hotdog, fries, or steak at any given time they please. but as Jamil stated earlier on the blog "There is no way to solve the growing problem that the pollution is causing...the damage is done and there is no going back." The world is nothing but a cycle everything continues at a different pace but in the same order.
Over-population is the most important problem facing mankind, and nobody wants to talk about it. “Climate Change” isn’t even real, but “oil depletion” is. We can maintain our present population of 7 billion only because we have petro energy to run our farm tractors and delivery trucks. Without oil, our high yield food production fails, the carrying capacity crashes and there will be unimagined competition for food. Maybe if our governments were not in league with multimillionaire business men we would not have these problems. We like to keep third world countries poor and uneducated so we make more profit. These people are not sane and incredibly powerful. It should be pretty obvious at this stage in the game there should be a cap on population growth worldwide in order for future generations to lead a good quality of life. But if we want to be PC about it let us make our own uneducated choices and lead an increasingly poor quality of life, that enriches the powerful and ultimately leads to wars, again another business venture. Even the “solutions” being offered to these problems are lining the pockets of some entrepreneur. Its all business on this planet. At our expense. Throwing a veil over it doesn’t make it go away.
For centuries, poor countries have been running on food shortage. This definitely isn't something new and out of this world. Though it is very sad and unfortunate, it is the truth that has been naked to the eye for a long time. What makes it more upsetting, is here in America, how much food is actually thrown away and wasted while we have plenty of countries around the world in dire need of it. If we end up being one of those countries with food shortage, I think that it won't be for another several years. As one of the richest countries in that area, I am all for helping aid countries with these specific problems. By helping the countries, in the future it may pay off by them becoming a strong ally for certain resources. The example used in Africa, them eating 9 times less than us here in the U.S., is a big differential number. This is something that I believe should be changed immediately because it is humane. Also a huge problem we have here in America is obesity, and by helping other countries in need of food, we can actually be solving our own problems back here at home. Being nice and helping out definitely has its perks and will pay off at the end. By ending this epidemic of food shortage, the world we live in could easily turn out to be a much better place if we all work together. We can help cut down dangers that our damaging and destructive. As a world wide population, we are driving our planet, our soil, our Earth into total destruction.
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The solution to the food shortage affects not only those in the poor countries but also those in the countries and cities that are rich. The solution that I believe can help solve two of the worlds problems. All the countries of the world should ration the food that they have to the minimum that a person can consume and give the rest to the countries that need it. That way the obesity problem and the growing world population will be fed. There is enough food in the world to feed everyone in it, but there is no way to solve the growing problem that the pollution is causing...the damage is done and there is no going back.
I completely agree with Jamil with the idea of food rationing, it is not something which should be impose to all of us, it’s more of a need we all should have, I see people asking for more that what they can consume, ordering food in restaurants to just take a bite and throw the rest away. There should be programs to make people conscious of the problem we face over the world, and incentives from the government to recycle and help the environment, even if this means that we stop producing some goods which we don’t really need.
The problem with the food in the world is that we have the idea that there will be always food to feed us so we don't really look at it as if it was a problem but we might react too late when it dissapears due to how we waste a huge amount of it in every day of our lives. It's incredible how the people in the restaurant throw away the food such a garbage without think for a minute in the homeless people that probably have not try any kind of food for a while. I personally believe that one possible solution for this huge problem is to stablish a law that punishes the waste of food in both houses and restaurants as well. Most of it can be donate it to people who don't have the resources to feed themselves and families. It's almost impossible to control this issue but working together we can propose possible solutions to this problem that can fix the hunger for thousands of people.
The richer you get, the greedier you are- developed countries of the world do little to help deal with this global crisis because of the cost associated with it! In areas like the sub-Saharan Africa, people are stuck in a socioeconomic limbo, in order to be productive you have to be well nourished, so productivity will remain nonexistent until basic human needs are met. This is an issue that will stay with us and the world as a whole for a very long time.
It is essential, in nature, to expand. To expand is nature’s nature. Plants are born of seeds. Humans come from fetuses, fetuses from sperm cells and egg cells, etc. Further more, cultures of bacteria are born from a single bacterium just as a an entire society is birthed from something far simpler. One of the fundamental laws that govern our understanding of this planet is that its mass is fixed, that is, the boundary that makes up the shape of the earth is neither contracting nor expanding. Through simple logic one can deduce that constant expansion within a fixed boundary is impossible indefinitely. There is a time where the expansion will reach the limit of the given boundary and either
stop expanding or will have to alter or destroy the original boundary.
(cont)
Nature has employed its own set of boundaries; predator populations in an ecosystem check and balance the populations of herbivores, just as the herbivores check and balance the population of certain plant species etc. The will of nature in a certain species is to propagate its own kind indefinitely. The species will multiply itself until its pattern is disrupted by an external force or it consumes all of its resources. Either way, its expansion is always halted by something outside of itself. These facts create a huge problem for the human species. Human beings have evolved a consciousness that allows us to manipulate our surroundings in such a way that we can surpass the laws of equal exchange that govern the rest of nature. Agriculture has allowed us to sustain ourselves within an exponentially growing population. However, we’ve ignored the most fundamental laws of survival whilst in the midst of our self-gratifying belligerency. Our endeavors have irreversibly altered the climate of this planet, placed us in the predicament of the attainment of fuel due to our dependence on oil and other unsustainable resources, which are beginning to dwindle, and raised the problem of a growing population and a shrinking food supply.
(cont)
In regards to the climate problem, I’m inclined to agree with Jamil. I do believe we have reached the critical line and the affects of our pollution are irreversible. A recent study has shown that even if we stop all carbon emissions today, the Earth would not reach its normal state for another 1000 years. As a species I still believe we are responsible for becoming as sustainable as we can in our usage of energy, regardless of the fact that penalties for blindly polluting are on their way. However, the growing population and the food supply are problems that I believe are in our range of tackling, though I believe the solutions to these problems will require a very dramatic shift in the mental paradigms that guide our livelihood.
In terms of the exponentially growing population, I think we are going to have to place some kind of regulation on the amount of children one can have. However it is done, I think this step is unavoidable, and it requires going against our very nature which is to propagate the species. We cannot hope to keep expanding our food production without significantly altering the rest of the environment more than we already have. This means we have to control our populations. This means partaking in all acts that lead to less population. Higher education opportunities in impoverished nations, for one; it is shown statistically that college graduates tend to have less children than families of whose members did not graduate from college. Equal rights to both sexes in nations that have little to no rights for their women, I believe is another important step. Women with access to more opportunities are apt to explore other aspects of their nature other than house keeper and mother. And I believe we need a dramatic reform in the way we handle foreign aid. I think we need to come up with regulations for the amount of food that is served at restaurants. The amount of food we can purchase per family needs to be regulated as well. This means a lot of infringements on what we call our freedom. Our freedom, unfortunately is not free at all.
It is stolen from the mouths of the starving, from the pockets of the impoverished, and from the labor of the exploited. Colonization has made it practically impossible for certain nations to sustain themselves and have forced them into our pocket by turning their food crops into our cash crops. Our very idea of American freedom is based on this, and in order to tackle this looming monster of a problem that is our growing population and food shortage, that way of thought is going to have to be abolished.
i believe everyone will be affected in a few years of food shortage. not only the poor countries will be affected its going to continued on to rich countries also. food will become more pricier and economies will continue to drop. this will create even more problems in the world. i believe the only solution is if we start creating more and more food using natural sources and should make rations of food smaller so there will be more food to go around. especially it will help all obesity in this world. it will solve most of the problems but usually where you solve a problem you create a new one which is an never ending cycle of problems.
Unfortunately, we are living in a world where stratification is very obvious and is a problem. It is so disappointed to see how the income and wealth is unequally distributed around the world. The people that need basic things to survive are unable to get them while others not only meet their basic needs in excess but obtain their desire and request as well. I believe that if we are able to minimize the degree of inequality around the world it will be a start to end poverty in the world. I am aware that inequality can also bring about some benefit such as individual effort, competition, repartition of roles and statuses. However, it become a problem when all the goods are concentrated in only a small group of people that exploit the poorer instead of helping them achieve. In short, we need to start sharing our goods with others.
As citizens of the western world, we need to learn how to consume less in order to reserve more resources for other countries. The more people populate the earth, the more mouths need to be fed and therefore the more food that needs to be produced. Fields used for crops are growing in space until eventually there will be no more room for them to inhabit. There is no effective way to limit population growth, because it's really no one's right to tell a family how many children to have. Unfortunately, times of disaster that cause a great number of deaths actually help the earth by allowing others to have their portion of food, water, etc. It is a sad but true fact that deaths actually help. People in Western Europe as well as American need to learn to consume less and allow more resources and food to be used on third-world citizens so they can feed themselves. Schools should teach students about nutrition and ways to not waste food. Rations should be taught to prevent people from overusing food resources.
Educating people is one of the most important steps toward ending food ‘shortage. It is true that educating take a lot to resources but at the end of the day we are paid off. I think that the richest country should try to invest in educating people of poor countries. After all, we are all in the same boat because the environment is polluted we all pay the consequences. The world is like the body, if the arm is broken all the body feel the pain and suffer. When people are educated they are more aware of their actions and can see their future consequences. Educating the people will help them to think better of way they can use to manage food, to cultivate, and to use infrastructure to ameliorate harvest. This is why I claim if anything starts with education and it will finish with success.
In a world where underconsumption and hyper-consumption are propagated as radically contrastive realities, we find ourselves collectively awestruck with the fear of impending chaos. In the developed countries, it is an economic strategy to inundate the social environment with the overproduction of material items and overly-nutritious sources of sustenance. Then, through subsequent conditioning, we find ourselves yearning for luxuries that had never been essential to happiness or contentment from the beginning. The obesity rates have climbed to approximately 20-30% depending on the particular state; also, with obesity as a contributing factor, diabetes continues to afflict 1 out of 10 Americans--- and the number is on a substantial rise.
In order to create a world where the resources available can sustain the populace, there is an emergent necessity for the control of population. To uphold the international laws and regulations that would undermine sporadic growth, it is essential that a form of world council is implemented (united nations would not suffice). A particular form of Unity will need to be reached in order for the exhaustingly competitive nations to come in synchronous agreement. It is irrelevant whether overt warfare is not rampant between developed nations; economic war is being waged worldwide. To narrow the brackets of injustice, humans would have to be catalyzed into the spontaneous desire to bring it about. The opiated masses embody a state of desensitization, where the exploitation and conquest of the natural world is then utilized to constrain our hope for progression.
The issues presented in this post are numerous and daunting. Issues like poverty, unclean water supplies, thinning resources, and poor or nonexistent education systems, and there is no quick fix for any of them. Most of all measures to solve these problems that would be sustainable are very expensive. Lowering water consumption from agriculture could be achieved with drip irrigation systems, but these are very expensive to install. Water sterilization in developing countries is also very expensive. As far as greenhouse gases, it is possible to harvest methane for energy but once again people would run into a money issue. Every plausible solution to help people across the world, like building schools and infrastructure is a money issue. Without increasing support to aid organizations none of these ideas will ever reach fruition. If the monetary concerns with solving these problems could be overlooked then it would be important to consider sustainable energy possibly from windmills or solar panels, as well as creating more jobs on farms so that less pesticides would be required for large crop yields.
How can we even start making positive social changes if our own mayor is being ousted BY THE PEOPLE because he’s raising property taxes for the well being of our city. When we look at a nation like France, and wonder why a french lifestyle is so wonderful, and why they have so many free services such as college education, and transportation, we fail to realize that they have those privileges because they pay taxes for those purposes.
It wouldn’t surprise me if those greedy selfish people that supported the petition to oust a man who just restored funding to domestic violence shelters, food banks, and transit, are the same people who don’t give a damn about fair trade, organic farming, or preserving open spaces.
We, the people, have the power to change our government. When I went to Germany for a few weeks I noticed that their environmental laws are far more harsh than ours. They recycle just about everything. Every household is required to have a compost bin, a paper bin, and a glass/plastic bin. A few years ago in California, styrofoam was finally made illegal. In Miami, we could all seek alternatives in the way we consume food and dispose of our trash.
For one I recommend for all of us Miami Dade students and faculty to use our resources, and join CROPS (Community-Rooted Organic Produce Services).
For a reasonable price, you could be consuming fresh, local, organic produce brought to our own Wolfson Campus twice a month. Versus paying more at a local Publix, where you’d consume, chemical induced produce, grown in farms that promote slave labor.
I know at this moment I can’t stop the nearest bulldozer in west Florida that is destroying natural habitats for more condominiums. But I know I can create earth. For one, I can compost and make fertilizer and donate it to local farms and gardens.
The One Child Policy or Food Rationing isn’t something the United States is worrying about, just yet. But just because it isn’t forced upon us yet, doesn’t mean we can’t make our lifestyles more sustainable and even more importantly, change our views to more humble ethical ones.
Globally there will be enough food for a growing world population, but hundreds of millions of people in developing countries will remain hungry and many of the environmental problems caused by agriculture will remain serious. Population growth will slow down and many people will be better fed. As a result, the growth in demand for food will be lower. The pressure starting from agriculture on natural resources will continue to increase, but at a slower pace than in the past.
christopher galvez
This has been ongoing crisis for a while now and there’s little to no chance that it will ever get solved. It would be extremely difficult to control how much this country consumes and Americans will most likely not conform with the idea of limited food intake. It’s not an impossible issue to change but will be very hard to accomplish. A possible way to help other suffering countries is by assigning the richest countries to another ailing country but always keeping in mind that the more aid we provide other people with, the more we will have to pay from our taxes. It’s an issue that is complicated and requires a lot of input from ourselves and everyone else in the world.
Ana Alfaras
There are many ways of fixing overpopulation and increase food production however it is difficult to get people to agree on the solutions. As many people agree we can start by rationing our foods and give our leftovers to other third world countries. We can also pass laws for population control though it is a very controversial matter in some countries. However this extreme will most likely balance out our population and increase food production. If our population is not under control we will end up with famine and total chaos. We could also spend our time and money researching on how to colonize other planets to reduce our potential overpopulation.
I believe that the problems we face now are due to lack of education. People must be educated on the fact that we are exhausting our planets resources are an astonishingly rapid rate. Governments of the world must present a unified front on this issue, when we educate the people, they can help end the problem. A major issue in this matter is greed. No one wants to invest in anything long term and look at the now and not the future. Someone wrote in their post that we should ration our food and send the rest to developing nations; this would be extremely difficult to do without implementing a state of martial law. As I mentioned above, people need to be educated on the issues that we face and find a way to come together. People need to realize that we cannot put a price tag on saving our planet; we need to stop fighting wars ad use our money to find healthier forms of farming, improving health care and finding a feasible solution to population growth. If we improve health care we can improve infant mortality and thus paving the way for people to not need to constantly reproduce.
"Asiatic countries and their economy largely depend upon agriculture. With the technological breakthrough, significant level of food grain production has been achieved and large stocks of food grains have been piled up to meet exigencies.... Globally, the problem of hunger is now more related to what Amartya Sen, in the paper entitled “Population and Reasoning”. Refers to as “entitlements,” not to food production lagging behind population growth." - http://www.msclasses4ias.com/In_News/Food_security.php
All around the world everyone have their way of living, some may have more then others. while, Some may not have nothing at all. Just take this for an example most people are trying to do something about with the movement that's called "Go Green" when going green with your food if you eat meat, add one meatless meal a week. Meat costs a lot at the store-and it's even more expensive when you consider the related environmental and health costs. Buy locally raised, humane, and organic meat, eggs, and dairy whenever you can. Purchasing from local farmers keeps money in the local economy. Whatever a person is on a diet or not, eat low on the food chain. Because a average person body only consume a certain amount of food at a time. Which with the rest can be sent to low poverty countries who don't have that hotdog, fries, or steak at any given time they please. but as Jamil stated earlier on the blog "There is no way to solve the growing problem that the pollution is causing...the damage is done and there is no going back." The world is nothing but a cycle everything continues at a different pace but in the same order.
Over-population is the most important problem facing mankind, and nobody wants to talk about it. “Climate Change” isn’t even real, but “oil depletion” is. We can maintain our present population of 7 billion only because we have petro energy to run our farm tractors and delivery trucks. Without oil, our high yield food production fails, the carrying capacity crashes and there will be unimagined competition for food.
Maybe if our governments were not in league with multimillionaire business men we would not have these problems. We like to keep third world countries poor and uneducated so we make more profit. These people are not sane and incredibly powerful. It should be pretty obvious at this stage in the game there should be a cap on population growth worldwide in order for future generations to lead a good quality of life. But if we want to be PC about it let us make our own uneducated choices and lead an increasingly poor quality of life, that enriches the powerful and ultimately leads to wars, again another business venture. Even the “solutions” being offered to these problems are lining the pockets of some entrepreneur. Its all business on this planet. At our expense. Throwing a veil over it doesn’t make it go away.
For centuries, poor countries have been running on food shortage. This definitely isn't something new and out of this world. Though it is very sad and unfortunate, it is the truth that has been naked to the eye for a long time. What makes it more upsetting, is here in America, how much food is actually thrown away and wasted while we have plenty of countries around the world in dire need of it. If we end up being one of those countries with food shortage, I think that it won't be for another several years. As one of the richest countries in that area, I am all for helping aid countries with these specific problems. By helping the countries, in the future it may pay off by them becoming a strong ally for certain resources. The example used in Africa, them eating 9 times less than us here in the U.S., is a big differential number. This is something that I believe should be changed immediately because it is humane. Also a huge problem we have here in America is obesity, and by helping other countries in need of food, we can actually be solving our own problems back here at home. Being nice and helping out definitely has its perks and will pay off at the end. By ending this epidemic of food shortage, the world we live in could easily turn out to be a much better place if we all work together. We can help cut down dangers that our damaging and destructive. As a world wide population, we are driving our planet, our soil, our Earth into total destruction.
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