The More We Can Grow On Already

In Agriculture, People Have Taken Wild Plants That Can't Be Eaten By People - And Turned Them Into Wonderful Food Sources. And That's Because Genomes Can Change, And People Working With Plants Have Picked Mutations. Mutations Are Nothing More Than Genetic Changes.

We Have Six-and-a-half-billion People On The Planet, Going Rapidly Towards Seven. We're Going To Need A Lot Of Inventiveness About How We Use Water And Grow Crops.

Weeds Do Become Resistant To Herbicides, And It Needs To Be Managed With Multiple Herbicides.

In Many Places In The Developed World, We Eat Or Waste Probably Twice As Many Food Calories As We Really Need. We're Wasteful Of Food. We Ship All Over The World. We're Now Realizing That Generating The Energy To Ship The Food Around The World Is Also Ruining Our Climate.

Civilization Depends On Our Expanding Ability To Produce Food Efficiently, Which Has Markedly Accelerated Thanks To Science And Technology.