Mother: Caring for 7 Billion Page #2
world today is
the demand for food,
one is population growth,
the second is rising affluence,
2-3 billion people
trying to move up the food chain
consuming more grain intensive
livestock products,
and the conversion of grain
into fuel for cars.
The grain required
with Ethanol,
would feed one person for a year.
Norman Borlaug,
who won the Nobel peace
prize in 1972
Green Revolution.
He saw
the Green Revolution as a way of
in order to,
solve the population problem
and he said if we don't do that,
we're going to have
a terrible situation.
And the fact that we're peaking
in oil production,
which is a key aspect of agriculture
almost everywhere,
availability of food globally
is going to plummet.
The big issue
is going to be water.
We see in some countries now, where
farmers are using virtually all
the technologies available
to raise yields.
things are tightening up.
As one observer said,
"Land has become the new gold.
And the more affluent
importing countries
like China, like South Korea
and even India now
are acquiring large chunks of land
around the world.
It's enormous in scope.
Rising food prices,
combined with rising unemployment,
political unrest.
Every year,
there are about 78 million
more people
living on the planet.
That's about 220,000
people everyday
competing for both natural resources
and for economic opportunities.
Stretching further the capacity
More than half of the world
population,
the majority in the developing world,
is under the age of 28
and is either at,
or will be at, a reproductive age
in the next few years.
Depending on the kind of choices
these youth will take,
humanity,
according to the UN projections,
could be as low as 8 billion
or as high as 10.5 billion by 2050.
A variance that could
make all the difference
as we are beginning to reach
many thresholds on the planet.
Population doesn't turn
around on a dime.
Population is continuing
to grow,
there's a momentum in
population today.
Even if...
all the couples in the world
were to decide today
that they were not going to have
more than two children
it's estimated that world population
would continue to grow
to about 8 billion.
we have got to,
under almost any circumstances,
continue to find ways to feed
that many people.
Loulou we have it ready. You guys can
eat at the little table.
I think when I grew up and...
met JP, who is my
husband and
we were going to have kids
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