Lester Brown's Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

Without some system of worldwide food sharing, the proportion of people in the rich and poor nations might eventually stabilize. The overpopulated poor countries would decrease in numbers, while the rich countries that had room for more people would increase. Hardin continues on to show that the modern approach to foreign aid stresses the export of technology and advice, rather than money and food! An ancient Chinese proverb once said: “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach him how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his days” (Hardin, Pg. 84). A number of programs for improving agriculture in the hungry nations known as the “Green Revolution” have taken a big stand in offering harvest and greater resistance to crop damage due to action taken on this advice. It is said that foundations such as “miracle rice” and “miracle wheat” are one of the most prominent advocates of a world food bank.

Finding a solution to sustain our environment has long been debated. In the essay “Go

When speaking about the Civil War and what led to it, a lot of names come to mind. One of them is the legendary leader John Brown. Not only to his peers at the time, but to the nation until this day. “If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments-I submit; so let it be done.” -John Brown. John Brown came from a history of religious, military and anti-slavery family. Through his life he has dealt with mutipule losses such as His grandfather who died in the Revolutionary War. The greatest loss of all was the death of his mother at a young age. “This loss was complete and permanent.” (Horwitz, 1). He lost his wife, Mary Ann Brown, in a similar way that he had lost his mom. He also lost some of his children. Religion was a major principal to John as he strongly believed the in cleansing of his children’s sins away through punishment. John brown had three children: John junior, Jason and Ruth. Brown did his very best to remove sin out of his children, in himself and also others like his father. He liked to travel to new territory and and the one place he settled in was Northern Pennsylvania he cleared out some land, built a tannery, raised stock and like hiss father became a civil leader. He also founded a school and church serving as the areas

The global population is expected to reach 9 billion people by the year 2050 and scientific projections indicate that world is on a trajectory towards an environmental and global food crisis. World Leaders, environmental enthusiasts and aid agencies have cause for alarm as they support urgent policies for change, for without them mankind will face unprecedented food insecurity. In 2015 estimates were that there were “some 795 million people” [World Food Programme, 2015], experiencing food insecurity and 3.1 million children under 5 died through malnutrition, while Australians continue to waste an estimated 361 Kg’s of food per person per yr [PMSEIC, 2010, p.44] All the while the earth groans under the weight of Greenhouse Gas Emissions [GHG], deforestation, soil degradation and

The article Plan B written by Lester R. Brown, informs the readers the great effect of pollution on the earth. Lester goes into great detail on how humanity is using earth’s resources faster than earth can replenish it. One of the big issues Brown highlights in the article is the lack of food resource the humanity could face. The increase of CO2 gas released into the environment has caused the earth to grow much warmer causing lands and water resources to dry out. Causing the earth’s soil to no be able to grow food, this could become a great problem since the earth’s population keeps increasing. Leaving humanity with more people to feed but not enough resources to feed them with. The second part of the article is Brown’s “Plan

Population experts predict that, by the year 2100, there will be 10 billion humans on the Earth. And yet, the world has not made valid plans regarding how to develop enough food to feed that number of people. Second only to clean water availability, feeding their people could end up being the biggest problem facing many countries around the world. The five countries with the highest projected populations are India, China, Nigeria, the United States, and Tanzania. Those countries alone are expected to have a combined populace of 4 billion hungry souls. That’s a lot of people to feed.

We must make becoming green a priority for the survival of planet earth. In Thomas Friedman’s book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, he addresses pollution’s impact on the environment and on the population. Restoring the environmental crisis, although a costly task, separate nations should aid each other to find a solution. Just as Friedman advocates, society must change its behavior to benefit the environment and civilization.

With surging global population, climatic anomalies, and energy and water reserves approaching depletion - who or what agent will feed the planet? The multinational model of western culture seems eager to oblige in an industrialized response to these deficiencies. Yet, this system ignores the poorest that would ostensibly benefit most; the importation of the western archetype’s low cost, high volume, year-round abundance creates a schema so interdependent and thinly stretched that an outbreak of disease or other catastrophe would disrupt the ability of the system to respond to that stressor. In The End of Food, Paul Roberts, a reporter for Harper’s and author of The End of Oil, attempts to cut the food crisis into three digestible pieces for

In Feeding 9 Billion by the National Geographic magazine, the article proposes a 5 step solution to feed a growing population. The article first talks about the overall crisis that is going on and how we will have "to roughly double the number of crops we grow by 2050." National Geographic's five step plan is as follows: first, freeze agriculture's footprint, second, grow more on farms we've got, third, use resources more efficiently, forth, shift diets, and fifth, reduce waste. National

According to our book Environmental Science for a Changing World, written by W.H. Freeman the environmental problems can be tremendously complex, and they are inclined to have numerous causes and each of them are challenging to approach. Therefore, when one party tries to give a response to an environmental problem, this will generate a different reaction to the other party, and our book called this as a “wicked problems”. Consequently, a wicked problem is a problem that is impossible to solve because of opposing ideas, and points of view of a determinate problem that are often hard to recognize. Moreover, our book stated that the biologist Jared Diamond identifies five factors that determine whether a society will succeed or fail these factors

In July 2013 a report issued by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs[31] warned that with 2.4 billion more people by 2050, the amount of food produced will have to increase by 70%, straining food resources, especially in countries already facing food insecurity due to changing environmental conditions. The mix of changing environmental conditions and the growing population of urban regions, according to UN experts, will strain basic sanitation systems and health care, and potentially cause a humanitarian and environmental

In the past ten years the world population exceeded six billion people with most of the growth occurring in the poorest, least developed countries in the world. The rapidly increasing population and the quickly declining amount of land are relative and the rate at which hunger is increasing rises with each passing year. We cannot afford to continue to expand our world population at such an alarming rate, for already we are suffering the consequences. Hunger has been a problem for our world for thousands of years. But now that we have the technology and knowledge to stamp it out, time is running short.

The focus of this essay is how water shortages in the future can produce worldwide food shortages. “Only if we act to improve water use in agriculture will we meet the acute freshwater challenges facing humankind over the coming 50 years” [4]. As the world changes over the next fifty years, the water struggles that we endure will be seen in the food production around the world. There are many factors that contribute to this occurring, including global climate change, the increase in water security vulnerability, and the phenomenon that the world has hit peak water. The world’s population has also changed their average diet over the past 50 years, to consuming more meat and more calories in general [4]. This dietary change means that each person requires more water to produce their food than in previous generations.

What do you think this picture shows? It looks like a factory farm, right? As much as it may surprise you, this is what most free range farms look like. Before I explain the picture I want to ask you a question. Which sounds more concerning: a) more than 1.2 billion people live off under 50 pence a day or b) Africa uses less than 3% of the world’s energy, despite having 12.5% of the world’s population? Studies show that in the 1990s more than 3 billion people were suffering from poverty. As the population boom continues to progress, that number is on the increase. Soon, the struggle to feed everyone will become ever more discernible.

In this essay I will be investigating how a world where people are starving, will be affected by an increasing population. Overpopulation can be defined to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities. By 2050, the world will be apart of nine billion people. Today at least one billion people are starving or are chronically malnourished. The basic definition of being chronically malnourished is that a person will fail to grow to their full potential. For humans, food is an activity of our daily life, and not a lot of people have it. I believe the topic food is an issue that we need to take into consideration.