One of the biggest issues that Nash recognizes is the fact that the world's population is entirely too big. With that comes one very HUGE issue: food and water shortages. It's hard to be that one person to make a difference but after reading this article, I learned that there are simple ways to help improve our environment.
With the population steadily increasing, it's going to be next to impossible to feed everybody. Lester Brown writes in his article, How to Feed 8 Billion People, that "the number of hungry people had fallen to 825 million" because food prices are so high. Not only is grain used for food, but also for fuel in cars. So with food prices going up, gas prices are increasing as well. "Shifting to a vegetarian diet cuts greenhouse gas emissions almost as much as shifting from an SUV to a hybrid vehicle does". If this quote doesn't make your "twinge-o-meter" (as Dr. Taylor would say) than I don't know what does. Brown even talk about how eating "less grain-intensive forms of animal protein such as poultry or certain types of fish can also reduce pressure on the earth's land and water resources". I love this article because a lot of times people feel like there's nothing practical that they can really do to help the environment. But I've learned from just reading this article that eating less grain makes an astronomical difference.
The article I used is called "How to Feed 8 Billion People" by Lester Brown
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