Critical Thinking
According with Jonathan Foley, feeding nine billion of people will be a big challenge for the humanity. The increment of the population by 2050 mean that we will increase the demand of meat, and in consequence we will need to double the crop production. She thinks that we will need to balance between the demand of food, and the serious problems that the raise of the agriculture cause to the planet. Among the most dangerous complications of the agriculture that she mentions are pollution, emission of greenhouse gases, and reduction of the biodiversity. That’s why she proposes five steps that cut the environmental impact of the agriculture worldwide . “The first step is to stop creating new farmland and instead use existing agricultural areas. This will prevent the destruction of rain forest and grasslands.” The second step is to employ modern Tecnologies that permit reuse the existent lands. This will increase the yields on farms that are not productive. The third step is to