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08 APRIL 2012
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Big Question: Feast or Famine?

"The world population is growing by 75 million people each year. That's almost the size of Germany. Today, we're nearing 7 billion people. At this rate, we'll reach 9 billion people by 2040. And we all need to eat. But how? That's a critical issue the IonE tackles in our first Big Question video.

At the same time, agriculture is a major contributor to climate change and will suffer as an industry from the consequences."

(Institute on the Environment, 2009, University of Minnesota)

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2009 • 2040 • agriculture • animated presentation • Aral Sea • call to action • carbon dioxide • cereal crops • climate change • computer models • consequences • consumption • consumption trends • cows • critical issue • current technologies • desert • ecology • ecosystems • famine • fertilizer • food • global environmental systems • global population • global water crisis • grain production • green revolution • greenhouse gases • greening the desert • H2O • human activities • human civilization • human-caused emissions • Institute on the Environment • Jonathan Foley • land use • late 20th century • livestock • meat • methane • nitrous oxide • over-fertilized fields • population • population growth • rainforest • resource management • rice • Robert Zeigler • ruminant animals • Stanley Wood • sustainability • The Inconvenient Truth • The Other Inconvenient Truth • University of Minnesota • University of Wisconsin • water • world population

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Simon Perkins
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