The article uses many examples such as the rise in grain prices due to poor harvests in the 20th century. We see different trends starting which increase or decrease prices of things we stole from the land. This shows us that if we run into harvest problems they maybe will lead to failed states in countries that cannot sustain their population. This happens because of rapidly increasing population whom are tapping into the countries food supply. While we need to make meets to the demand of food our own interests come first. We are now growing grains for fuel not consumption when there are people to feed. They also talk about rising trends that come with the building price. Falling water tables, eroding soil and rising temperatures all play an effect on foods prices. If we keep neglecting, not restoring and not helping our land maintain sustainability, states will fall because of food shortages and not having the ability to farm their own product. We must tackle the issues such as poverty, CO2 emissions and population control which would come with restructuring the world energy economy. If this is all done it will be one step of restoring our lands to maintain civilization.
2)The biggest threat to global political stability is the decreasing security of food. Countries will slowly stop exporting their food which in turn will be fewer imports such as medicine, industry and education.
Women’s Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation (S 37)
The article talks about the women and their connection to the environment. The author starts out by talking about the difference between man and women when it comes down to farming and cooking. Women treat things differently which help them by doing many things not just specific things to create a change. It then goes into the talk about women farmers and their work with hybrid and seed planting for centuries and how they do not get accredited for it. With the rise in GMO or corporation seeds women are losing their touch of preserving biodiversity to wide scale agriculture. Women have been the part of agriculture for thousands of years. It means what they were doing was keeping our biodiversity alive not like it is now.
1) An ecofeminist is a woman with strong passion to the connection of domination of women and the domination of nature. They use their past of being oppressed by mean to try to understand the environment and find was to fix and liberate it.
Human Domination of Earth’s Ecosystems (S 9)
The article starts by talking about man’s domination over earth and how we have changed with the industrial revolution, to change landscapes and ecosystems. The first point the authors talked about is the increases in land transformation. We learn about the widespread epidemic of land transformation to have their goods and services. In the end it is just driving us further to the loss of biodiversity worldwide and changing our environments on a huge scale. As we have altered the oceans by over fishing and exploitation on its resources more and more harmful organism grow and all because the exploitation of the oceans fisheries. The article then goes into the biogeochemical cycles that we have altered as humans, such as carbon cycle with our increases in fossil fuel use. Change to our water cycle with our manipulation of water ways and systems to our own beneficial use. Increase of nitrogen for added fixation and other cycles such as sulfur, phosphorus and synthetic organic chemicals. The article talks about the effects on humans and the land from those cycles we altered then goes into the life we altered on the planet. By this they talk about extinction of species and rate it is increasing. Then they talk about invasive species and the unhealthy mix and takeover of non-native species. The article concludes with the message that humans will continue to rule the earth until we destroy it.
2) No I think if the human population was reduced we would have all these problems still. We would still be exploiting our lands and oceans for our own economic gain. It isn't like we only take what we need when it comes to earths resources so why would the problem change with a diminished population. The amount of people is not the problem, man’s chase of wealth is.
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