Sustainable Future
Sustainable future
In a world with an ever increasing population ways must be considered to maintain the current population and meet the demands of future population growth. The world population is estimated to hit 7 billion in the very near future. This is a startling contrast to the population of the 1800’s being estimated to be a paltry 1 billion. Increasing technology and over use of natural resources has led to a population boom. Many experts estimate that the world population will double again in 23 years. This increase in population only leads to an increase of disparity between the wealthy of developed countries to the rest of the developing world. The world not does have enough resources to sustain this kind of growth. That is why sustainable solutions must be researched and implemented not only to meet the needs of today but to avoid the catastrophes of tomorrow. I will explain three ways in which this can be accomplished and how each of them is being implemented today. They range from reducing consumption of meat, buying locally grown food, and finally taking steps at home to reduce waste.
First would like to point out what could have the largest positive impact on sustainability as well as increasing the overall health of the environment as well as the general population. That is the eating less food produced from animal sources. A large majority of corn, wheat and other agricultural is grown for the sole purpose of feeding livestock. The substantial amount of land use to rise to feed livestock cattle alone is extremely disheartening. The world produces about a 11 billion calories worth of food to which only 7 billion is needed to feed everyone on the planet. This is extremely inefficient considering that around 1.5 billion people are currently living on the brink of starvation. Moreover, Getting the meat from the animal to your refrigerator also consumes huge amounts of energy. Consider the steps: growing grain to feed livestock;
In a world with an ever increasing population ways must be considered to maintain the current population and meet the demands of future population growth. The world population is estimated to hit 7 billion in the very near future. This is a startling contrast to the population of the 1800’s being estimated to be a paltry 1 billion. Increasing technology and over use of natural resources has led to a population boom. Many experts estimate that the world population will double again in 23 years. This increase in population only leads to an increase of disparity between the wealthy of developed countries to the rest of the developing world. The world not does have enough resources to sustain this kind of growth. That is why sustainable solutions must be researched and implemented not only to meet the needs of today but to avoid the catastrophes of tomorrow. I will explain three ways in which this can be accomplished and how each of them is being implemented today. They range from reducing consumption of meat, buying locally grown food, and finally taking steps at home to reduce waste.
First would like to point out what could have the largest positive impact on sustainability as well as increasing the overall health of the environment as well as the general population. That is the eating less food produced from animal sources. A large majority of corn, wheat and other agricultural is grown for the sole purpose of feeding livestock. The substantial amount of land use to rise to feed livestock cattle alone is extremely disheartening. The world produces about a 11 billion calories worth of food to which only 7 billion is needed to feed everyone on the planet. This is extremely inefficient considering that around 1.5 billion people are currently living on the brink of starvation. Moreover, Getting the meat from the animal to your refrigerator also consumes huge amounts of energy. Consider the steps: growing grain to feed livestock;