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The Other Inconvenient Truth: The crisis in global land use
As the international community focuses on climate change as the great challenge of our era, it is ignoring another looming problem—the global crisis in land use.
nation (October 5, 2009) — Jonathan Foley, Yale Environment 360
The issue of global climate changes has been accepted and the next question is no longer why but how we are to address this problem. Climate change has become the poster child of environmental crises and is blamed as the mother of all environmental problems. However, the author suggests that “we now face a global crisis in land use and agriculture that could undermine the health, security, and sustainability of our civilization"-a fact often overlooked. Humans are putting many demands existing resources, including increasing population growth, changing dietary preferences, rising energy prices, and increasing needs for bioenergy sources. These changes will demand agricultural production to double or even triple in the next 30 to 40 years.
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