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A 5 page paper on environmental issues leading to a world food shortage. High-yield crop varieties, the use of pesticides & fertilizers, and the plight of rain forests, wetlands, and montane ecosystems, are among the many problems described. The role of overpopulation is factored into the discussion. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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effects of environmental degradation on cropland productivity, and the shrinking backlog of yield-raising technologies would slow the record growth in food production of recent decades. But because no one knew
exactly when or how this would happen, the food prospect was widely debated. Consequently, we now see various new obstacles emerging all at once to slow the growth in food
production. As always, soaring growth in human population threatens to destroy most of the worlds remaining rainforests, wetlands, and montane ecosystems, drastically reducing species diversity.
Despite advances in organic farming techniques, such as integrated pest management and fertilizing with "green" manures, overly relying on these practices will result in the plow down of forests to
feed a population that is estimated to nearly double by 2050 (Hattem, 1995). Environmentalists must face up to the fact that unless high-yield crop varieties, pesticides,
and fertilizer are widely adopted in developing nations, the worlds food supply will be outstripped by spiraling demand. Inadequate crop yields translate directly into more forests falling under the
plow. In the environmental community, many seem to resist this conclusion. They tend to be very skeptical of high-tech, chemically-assisted farming. Some pine for a smaller scale, more communitarian
type of agricultural system. They dismiss modern agriculture as a form of "industrialization," or demonize it for its "chemicalization." According to Crosby (1996), some activists baldly assert that the
"drive to industrialize agriculture and increase output has also led to major ecological disasters because of the artificial nature of all agricultural systems." Much of the environmental
communitys disenchantment with modern, high-intensity agriculture can be traced to Rachel Carsons 1962 book, "Silent Spring" (read several years ago). I believe that she was certainly right to warn
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