Resource Consumption

Resource Consumption

1. Philosophies

   • Cornucopians
     • Are dismissive
     • Capitalism + Innovation
       • Research
         • GMOs
           • Superweeds
             • Resistance
               • Pesticides
                 • Nicaragua
               • Globalization
           • Pros. vs. cons
         • Public vs. Private
         • Decrease in funding
       • Infrastructure
   • Malthusians
     • Neo-Malthusians
       • Think there's value in historical cases

2. Bad Resource Management

   • Historical Examples
     • Polynesians
     • Greenland
     • Easter Island
     • Adoption of Agriculture
       • Hunter-gatherers b4
       • Potato
       • Technologies that helped increase
       • Factors that led to
       • Negative Consequences
         • Loss of biodiversity
       • Corn
     • Samarians
     • Cultural Conservatism
   • Tipping Point
     • Exceptionalism
     • Peak Land
       • Degradation
         • Loss of soil by land or water
           • City Sprawl
             • Necessity of self-sufficiency
           • Release of carbon
           • Boosting Fertility
             • Cover crops
             • Microdosing fertilizer
               • Sorghum and millet
             • Wastewater
             • Inhibitors
             • Using animals
           • Contamination
           • Artificial fertilizer
         • Loss of forests
         • Repairing
           • Permaculture
             • Recycling waste
             • High-energy and low-input small holder farming systems
               • Types
                 • Extensive
                   • Pastoralism
                     • Central Asia
                     • Selective Breeding
                   • Swidden
                     • Amazon
                 • Intensive
                   • Vietnam
               • Benefiting small farmers
               • Benefiting large farmers
                 • Open free markets
                   • Farm Bill
             • Agroforesty
       • Salinization
   • Waste
     • Food thrown away
   • Peak Oil
     • Biofuels

3. Population Growth

   • Developing Countries
     • Contraception
   • Developed Countries
     • Fertility Rates Decreasing
   • Models
     • Demographic Transition
     • Population Pyramid
   • Peak People
     • Youth Bulge

4. Food Shortages

   • Wars
     • Water
       • Virtual Water
         • Melting glaciers
         • Runoff
       • Inaccessibility
         • Unequal distribution
         • Consuming Aquifers
           • India
           • Ogallala
       • Oceans
         • Acidification
         • Sea-level Rise
       • Drought
         • Dams
           • Pakistan
           • China
         • Soil Erosion
       • Large Demand
   • Overfishing
     • Aquaculture
       • Africa could benefit
     • Throwing away waste
       • Decline in SE Asia
   • Nutrient Deficiency
     • Artificial food
       • Obesity
         • Healthcare
           • Crowding Out
   • Yield Gaps
     • Global Warming
   • Increase in demand

5. My questions

   • 1. Problem with corn is that it removes food from the food chain which leads to foot riot? 2. How do we benefit small farmers: Agricultural Involution? Marginal return on labor? Labor-intensive system? 3. How does adopting labor intensive approach-->Increase in food prices?