BIO 1000
THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

Start:  10/3
On-line:  10/3-10/10
Wrap-up:  10/10
Work due:  10/10

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. 5
• Ch. 16
• (Ch. 15)

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:

• The Problem With Giving Free Food To Hungry People

  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

  Thomas Malthus: Essay on Population, 1798 (summary) Malthus, 200 years later (includes the complete Malthus essay, note esp. chapt. 5) Why was Malthus wrong?  (this is a student work) Overpopulation - Does Population Growth Follow Food Supply?

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

  Famine Economics of Famine (interview with Dr. Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics)

  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 The New Farm