BIO 1000
THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

Was Mathus right?  Will we run out of food?  (You will need to read Thomas Malthus's "Essay on Population")

What is the best way to ensure there is enough food for everyone?

• Give at least two options
• What are the potential impacts (positive and negative) of those options on the environment and on the quality of life.

Text

• Ch. 9 & 10

Interviews

• Genetically Modified Organisms
  • What are they? video | audio only
  • purpose video | audio only
  • ecological impact video | audio only
  • conflict of rights video | audio only
  • Do we have the right to put them into nature? video | audio only

On-line resources:

• What does it mean to be a farmer in the twenty-first century? The Problem With Giving Free Food To Hungry People Food trade drains global water sources at 'alarming' rates

  Author Michael Pollan http://www.michaelpollan.com/ Letter to the Farmer in Chief What do farmers think of Michael Pollan's ideas?

  Author Jonathan Safran Foer NPR Interview:  For Foer, Meat Is Murder ... And Worse

  Dr. Temple Grandin: http://www.grandin.com/

  Pasture-Based Dairy Farming in Missouri http://agebb.missouri.edu/dairy/grazing/conference/ Dairy Farmers Find More Green in Grass

  CAFO info: IL EPA:  http://www.epa.state.il.us/water/cafo/ US EPA:  http://www.epa.gov/Region7/water/cafo/index.htm CDC (links)http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/Topics/CAFO.htm No CAFOs (advocacy group): http://www.nocafos.org/index.htm

  Eating a more plant-based diet Vegans: Are they right?

  Thomas Malthus: Essay on Population, 1798 (summary) full essay: www.esp.org/books/malthus/population/malthus.pdf full essay: http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/malthus/popu.txt A brief synopsis of the Malthusian Theory of Population Malthus, 200 years later Why was Malthus wrong?  (this is a student work) Overpopulation - Does Population Growth Follow Food Supply?

  Energy & feeding relationships Energy & The Food Chain Trophic Issues & Agriculture Detailed description of energy flow and human consumption

  Famine (Dr. Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics) - updated links Poverty & Famine: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation Interview with Dr. Amartya Sen

  Genetically modified organisms Seeds of Conflict (includes annotated links list) Transgenic Crops

  Modern Agriculture Green Revolution (infoplease.com) Billions Served (interview with Norman Borlag, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize) Eating Fossil Fuels The Tightening Conflict: Population, Energy Use, and the Ecology of Agriculture

  Sustainable Agriculture USDA: Sustainable Agriculture Resources The Land Institute: Natural Systems Agriculture Interview with Wes Jackson, Founder of The Land Institute another interview with Wes Jackson The New Farm/Rodale Institute RAFT: Renewing America's Food Traditions