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Some Thoughts on Peaked Resources
It's hard to image reaching the peak for specific resources. The peak is described as the plateauing of production of a resource. It seems we've reached the peaks for chicken, rice and milk. This is hard to believe because with the global population continuing to grow, theoretically we would need more food like chicken and rice to feed that inflated population. I do remember reading somewhere that there are as many chickens on earth as humans, which is also hard to image. These types of conversations can be difficult as we demean animals as simply resources for humans to manipulate and utilize. In the context of climate change, it is expected that natural disasters and other changes to our environment will wreck havoc on all of our food and resource production. That facilitates the circumstance of reaching peaks because conditions will inevitably get worse, challenging our ability to keep pace with population growth. So how do we respond to this? We find ways to bolster our diets by other means. That involves using different grains and sources of protein. The problem of course is that nothing will escape the affects of climate change. That being said, it is known that we waste a lot of food every year. I'm talking billions of pounds. When we talk about needing to product enough food for a growing population, harnessing the cornucopia of food wasted.
It's hard to image reaching the peak for specific resources. The peak is described as the plateauing of production of a resource. It seems we've reached the peaks for chicken, rice and milk. This is hard to believe because with the global population continuing to grow, theoretically we would need more food like chicken and rice to feed that inflated population. I do remember reading somewhere that there are as many chickens on earth as humans, which is also hard to image. These types of conversations can be difficult as we demean animals as simply resources for humans to manipulate and utilize. In the context of climate change, it is expected that natural disasters and other changes to our environment will wreck havoc on all of our food and resource production. That facilitates the circumstance of reaching peaks because conditions will inevitably get worse, challenging our ability to keep pace with population growth. So how do we respond to this? We find ways to bolster our diets by other means. That involves using different grains and sources of protein. The problem of course is that nothing will escape the affects of climate change. That being said, it is known that we waste a lot of food every year. I'm talking billions of pounds. When we talk about needing to product enough food for a growing population, harnessing the cornucopia of food wasted.
