Throughout the essay it will be illustrated how today's current society is reaching a point of no return and we need to put a stop to these trends of overconsumption before it's too late. ... By 2040 we would need to triple the global food supply in order to meet basic food needs, but doing so would require a 1000 percent increase in the total energy expended in food production. ... Our species has flourished, but we've changed our environment too fast for other species to adapt. ... We're approaching a point where the world's ecosystem will change too fast for even...

• Word Count: 1527
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The essay Brave New World Revisited was written by Aldous Huxley in 1958- twenty- seven years after the publication of Brave New World. In this essay he discusses the forces that he believed would lead the world to the organized society that he prophesied in his novel. ... In 1958 he felt that the prophecies he made twenty-seven years earlier were coming true faster than he expected. ... Since 1984 world food production has slowed and new technologies do not promise a great increase in world food output (Brown and Kane 24). ... In his essay "Environmental change and Violent Conflict", Thom...

• Word Count: 2421
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The more people on this earth, the more food will be needed, our population already suffers from an abundance of poverty. ... Thriving nations such as ours that have so much food that a large portion of it is wasted, have a responsibility to aid countries that cannot feed their hungry. ... With the population rate rising so fast the divorce rate also continues to rise, leading one to believe that these could be related by individuals that have with multiple partners. ... Aldo Leopold states in his essay The Land Ethic that "humans are not conquerors of the land but citizens of it." meaning ...

• Word Count: 978
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate