According to my textbook:
If the world population continues to grow at the current (2005) rate through 2025, grain production must increase by 80% to meet the increased need for food.
Malthusian thoughts, anyone? I know we can’t reasonably expect another agricultural revolution (like the Haber process that gave us the oil —> fertilizer equation we know and love) to happen, and with oil as alarming as it’s been over the past year, things like this tend to set off concomitant alarms in my mind. Then again, if Americans would stop wasting between 14 and 50% of their food, that alone would already go a long way towards ensuring that there’s enough to go around.
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