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Agribusiness needs green help
Biotech could be green’s best friend again. If the scientific findings and environmental analyses are anything to go by, we could be looking to very nonorganic sciences current eco-thinking decries to keep the West won. Over population is tasking scientists to feed the world greenly.
Is it possible the marriage of organic agriculture and biotech could save the planet? The percentage of global arable land is less than ten per cent genetically modified crops. That means plants and seeds and vegetables planted for needs of cultures without life expectancy absent these crops have been sustained on “artificial” means.
Conservation of topsoil is a growing topic among land farmers anxious to retain agribusiness potential on land tapped out after years of farming. No-till organic farming is a feel-good method, but critics argue the scale cannot be reproduced to meet existing food requirements.
World populations are growing and sustaining themselves in a manner that is exhausting the environment. This is the policy that no government wants to address. China has long been the example of a country whose forcible birth rate debilitation has met with moral outrage and social opprobrium.
Nobody wants to tell their people that their reproductive efforts are much more expensive than they realize. Governments must build hospitals, schools, colleges, and the resources to do so dwindle to nothing. The poorer a population gets, the more its viable workers emigrate. Governments have no way to win.
Many criticis of world overpopulaton point to the Western culture of having helped agricultural programs overseas with hyrbid and scientific engineered plants that do not meet grain demand.
But grain supply will never met a snowballing demand with no checks on its growth. And when third world countries can draw on an everlasting and ongoing supply of aid, there is no cause or purpose for the governments to assist population control initiatives.
Public policy and belief systems, as well as cultural heritages continue national overcrowding via birth rates that are not synonymous with the country’s ability to feed itself. International consortia should take note that unless something intelligent is done, human wills exhaust this planet to food scarcity.
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