The More We Can Grow On Already

There Are Probably Already Too Many People On The Planet.

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.

As People Around The World Become More Affluent, They Are Demanding Diets Richer In Animal Protein, Which Will Require Ever More Robust Feed Crop Yields To Sustain.

We've Gotten So Good At Growing Food That We've Gone, In A Few Generations, From Nearly Half Of Americans Living On Farms To 2 Percent. We No Longer Think About How The Wonderful Things In The Grocery Store Got There, And We'd Like To Go Back To What We Think Is A More Natural Way.

In The Last Century, As We Learned More About Genes, We Were Able To Devise Ways Of Accelerating Evolution.