"What would it take to grow all the food needed for all Manhattanites – on Manhattan Island?" This video drives home the ecological impact of our current food production and consumption patterns – but then goes beyond that, to present a truly shareable alternative. From the Why Factory:
How much food do I consume? How much land is needed to grow it? Could we grow our food in the city? Could we feed all Manhattanites by growing food on Manhattan island?
Foodprint Manhattan is a study on food consumption patterns and production capacities. It visualizes how much and what we consume and what are the spatial consequences.
The amount of arable land is shrinking globally. Water scarcity is a problem in various regions of the world. But what if plants don’t need soil anymore and use less water? Foodprint Manhattan shows how more advanced food production methods compare to current production and how they could help. Study puts current discussion about urban farming into context, by visualizing how much space is actually needed to produce our daily food.
Thanks again to City Farmer News!
There are two ways to look at almost any problem on the face of the Earth. One of those ways is nearly always that population is growing.
Would the amount of arable land be shrinking if there were only 1 billion people on earth instead of 7 billion? Would it be a problem even so?
Why do we ALWAYS try to solve the myriad problems of food shortages, water shortages, pollution, habitat destruction, global warming, fish stock depletion, and on and on and on and on and on by attacking all of these problems, when every one of them could be ameliorated or eliminated by just decreasing population over time? Why not focus all of the world's efforts on the one problem that, should we solve it, will have the add-on effect of solving every other major problem in the world?