Lester R Brown Summary

The world we live in today is growing at an extremely fast pace. It seems to be that everyday there are more buildings being built, more concrete being poured, and more free land being destroyed. The cause of these events is the worlds’ population rate. Every day our population reaches an all-time high, every day we gain more mouths to feed, and every day we are losing ways to feed these mouths. Food insecurity has risen significantly along with the rise of our population. We must find ways to lower the food insecurity rate by finding new farming practices, making the public more aware of this issue, and doing more ourselves to make sure that we make a change to this problem.

Another result that has occurred from population growth is a change in consumption and waste. This subject has arguments on population growth hindering economic development as well as not affecting it at all. As argued by Robbins, population growth has caused a high demand on resources, such as water, food and fuel. With population growing, that is why some communities are dealing with famine, poverty and an increase in mortality rates. According to Massimi Livi-Bacci, population growth has not had an effect on the economy. He believed that human population growth can be dealt with technology. With the development of technology, tools and equipment for agriculture can help to increase food production, to support the growing population. In the past, things were modified and invented to hunt for food, to heat, cook food and preserve it. High grade fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides were invented to help farmers grow crops that were better and stronger. Consumers do not want crops that will rot in a few days after purchase, so these things helped crops last longer once they were purchased. More importantly, without these developments in technology, individuals would suffer from food shortages, starvation and mortality rates would go up. Ester Boserup, was another supporter, he commented that population growth would not hinder the economy, but through the use of agriculture and technology they can produce more food supporting the population increase. Boserup did mention

Dr. Forsyth implements plenty of evidence as well as proven statistics to back up his outlook on these issues. The growth of human population is happening at an exponential rate, implying that in a short period of time population growth will double. “We find it difficult to comprehend exponential growth, but it may prove to be our fatal blind spot” [3]. When analysing the world’s population over a long period of time, it took roughly 19,000 years for the world’s population to go from 5million people to 500 million people in 1500 A.D. [4] With an estimated population of 7.5 billion people [5], for a period less than 1000 years, population increased more than 1500 times its size than it was in the 1500’s. In addition, on a more minute scale of time, in 1950 the world’s population was roughly 2.5 billion people [6] in merely 50 years the world’s population has tripled. With these statics, it is evident that the world’s population is increasing at an incomprehensive rate. With populations at their peak, overconsumption is another problem this world faces, as Dr. Forsyth affirms “humans consume far more than their fair share of the Earth’s natural productivity.”[7] Due to this over consumption of resources, there is a vast demand for cheap food which results in the clear cutting of large forest to generate room for new plantations of food. When doing so, humans destroy habitats that

No matter how many people do claim overpopulation is not a relevant issue, it very much is because of the simple fact that starvation and pollution are very real and existing issues that are ultimately offset by overpopulation. In an article titled “Overpopulation Is Not the Problem,” author Erle C. Ellis uses the analogy “Like bacteria in a petri dish, our exploding numbers are reaching the limits of a finite planet, with dire consequences,” to argue that overpopulation is not a problem by stating the opposing claim. “We are nothing like bacteria in a petri dish,” Mr. Ellis solemnly asserts, “...these claims demonstrate a profound misunderstanding of the ecology of human systems. The conditions that sustain humanity are not natural and never have been. Since prehistory, human populations have used technologies and engineered ecosystems to sustain

The increasing human population and its impact on the world we live in has always been a prominent topic of discourse throughout history. A common theme that originates from human population is food scarcity. However, is an increasing population necessarily interrelated with food scarcity? Naturally, polarising perspectives on this subject will arise. Some are rather pessimistic and look at extreme population control measures, such as the neo-Malthusian angle that J. Kenneth Smail expresses in his aptly named essay: Remembering Malthus: A preliminary Argument for a Significant Reduction in Global Human Numbers (2002). Other angles on the subject are a bit more hopeful such as the views expressed

A subject that recently has caught the attention of many around the world is Policing and all that comes with it. There are countless people with opinions for either side of the argument. One case in particular that has drawn a lot of controversy is the case of 18 year old Michael Brown. He was killed August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, a northern Suburb of St. Louis. Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, 28, a white Ferguson police officer. Before the incident with Darren Wilson Michael Brown was seen with Dorian Johnson at a convenience store taking multiple packages of cigarillos. Wilson had been notified by police dispatch of the robbery and descriptions of the two suspects. He encountered Brown and Johnson as they were walking down

Clifford Brown was a very influential composer who made the most of the short life he

“If we satisfy a growing population’s need for food, we necessarily decrease its per capita supply of the other resources needed by men” (Hardin, Pg. 84). Hardin also points out that food is going to be significantly increased to meet a demand due to the overloading population, so what are going to do about the environment? For example, studies show that India’s population increases by 15 million each year. The

The main concern when population increase is brought up is “how are we going to feed everyone?” The answer to this question is not a new farming technique or a new genetically modified plant that grow at the speed of light. The answer is simply a change in our lifestyle and to stop wasting so much food. My mother and father every weekend go out and buy a weeks’ worth of groceries and a lot of times they buy too much of a food that we already have or they but avocados that will go bad by the time we need to use them. This creates so much unnecessary waste and we are all guilty of it. I once met a woman who lived in France and she told me about how every day after work she bought the groceries she needed for that night and the two benefits to this were that her food was always fresh and she never threw out food. To be honest I had never thought of only buying what you needed for that night it always made sense to me to buy everything at once and get it over with and not have to worry about buy groceries until next weekend. Little did I realize that this is the mindset that causes so much waste because we are simply unaware of the problems that we are creating. The combination of the food waste we throw out as consumers and the food waste that is thrown out by businesses across the globe is 1.3 Billion tons which is over a third of what the globe produces; this is a number that is much

In areas where power and wealth are concentrated in the hands of a few, it is difficult for the poor to break out of the cycle of poverty that is often passed from generation to generation. Rapid population growth makes this effort even more difficult. Hunger has always been a companion to poverty. Most experts agree that the world could feed today's population, and a considerably larger number, if income were redistributed, if modern farming methods were used everywhere, if land reform policies were put into effect, if meat consumption were reduced, if non-nutritious crops were replaced by nutritious crops, and if waste and corruption were controlled. However, rapid population growth may intensify the hunger problem; in the most rapidly growing countries, population growth can reduce or eliminate food production gains resulting from modernization of farming. Population pressures may also encourage practices such as over irrigation and overuse of croplands, which undermine the capacity to feed larger numbers. In some cases, population growth is quite directly related to a social problem because it increases the absolute numbers whose needs must be

Richard Brown was born on 3/18/1967, St. Louis, MO, to Anne Svec and Richard Brown. Richard's parents have passed away.His father passed away in xxxx because of xxxxx and his mother passed aways in xxxx from xxxx. Richard was raised by his mother in Alton, Illinois. He reported that he and mother had a good relationship. Richard never saw his father growing up. Richard has no siblings. Richard grew up in Alton, Illinois and he still resides in Alton, Illinois. Richard stated that he had an okay childhood. He was a happy child. His mother and he lived on welfare. When Richard was a child he was disciplined by spankings and grounded.

This essay will discuss how the artists James Brown and Michael Jackson have influenced modern day artists and music. It will discuss what made James and Michael so successful, unique traits they brought as artists, iconic performances they did, what made them special, what people liked about them the most, what made them stand out, how they influenced performers that followed them and other details about their lives and careers. This essay will give evidence of how James and Michael touched people hearts and grabbed peoples attention, especially people in the same industry as them, the music industry, in turn inspiring other artists to take influence from them by using similar styles in their performances and vocal techniques, and making

I have found myself in the middle of a social church event drained and wanting to go home. In my case, it has become easier to socialize with strangers than with people that we know. This chapter really challenged me to really go inward and examine my own feeling towards other people. It made me think of the many times I have hid my self behind an introvert personality, it made me pounder of the fact that this was a selfish action. Taylor also challenge me personally to get over myself, and to think about loving God and our neighbor the way Jesus taught us to, without obeying the rules of society that bind us to certain kind of people. (Pg. 97)

There are many people who chose singing as their passion. Some of which are only on YouTube. I like to call them YouTube’s singers/rappers/bands. There are many more than you would expect: NSP, Starbomb, Rhett and Link, Nathan Sharp, JT Machinima, and many more. There's one in particular that I look up to. Boyinaband or David Brown, a British brunette Youtuber and Singer.

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.