Big Question: Feast or famine?

The University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment is discovering solutions to Earth's biggest problems, including the big question of how are we going to feed a growing world without destroying the planet?

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[hillarykino]

great work! what program was used to create this?

[UMNIonE]

Thank you! It was done using Adobe After Effects.

[lucemorris1]

This video is amazing!

I was wondering what music you used for this?

super awesome presentation, so effective and amazing.

[UMNIonE]

The music used is just stock music that can be purchased for video production. I'm glad you liked the video--thanks!

[muerteverde]

Why would the banking elite want to reduce the population? They aren't suffering the ill effects of over population as the poor are. In fact, overpopulation is GOOD for the banking elite because it ensures an overabundance of labor, which depresses wages.

[SPAnsw]

But WHY does the population have to keep on growing? How about adding family planning, education for women, freedom from religion, and everything else that makes people want to have less kids? It's the only sustainable solution in the end. Great video otherwise.

[TheAtheologian]

Erm I was somewhat skeptical to this video at several points, but not being very well versed in the subject matter yet I'd like to withhold judgement yet.

However I was somewhat annoyed at the 1:29 representation that fertilizers have doubled the amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere. Given that nitrogen is around 80 percent of the atmosphere and had the oxygen level been higher then things would start burning far more often.

So that's at least one case of misinformation.

[Alejandro Uscanga]

Dejar de decir que es buen buen video, actuemos, que con nuestras peuqeñas acciones, si podemos hjacer algo :/

[xcr800imp]

how many of you remember the dust bowl? have we had one since then? why? because farmers are working to do a better job.oceans and valcanoes put out more gasses then everything else in the world combined by hundreds of times. all the cows farting, engines, factory's combined are a blip on the radar compared to a valcanoe or the oceans. ag is a blip on the radar compared to the earth doing its normal thing.

[xcr800imp]

"gmo" you people are idiots. why are "gmo" so bad?? I used to be organic but i could not provide a living doing it organically. now i still use some of the organic ways to keep soil healthy. but with "gmo" crops i produce a lot MORE FOOD with a lot LESS inputs like WATER, FERTILIZER. the "gmo" allows me to use less diesel fuel, less tillage, LESS CHEMICALS.

are there some bad farmers, yes. you people need to get a real education.

[xcr800imp]

this video has so much false info.

how can P and K be "in the enviroment even more" when they are mined from the earth? look at the stats in ag for how much more conservation is going on. we grow more FOOD today with less inputs then ever. thats right your FOOD is from farmers, The state of mn. is alive because of agri buisiness. no farmers no food. a farmer today is more of a steward of the land than anyone clapping for this crap video. claiming to love "mother" earth.

[DOMINOSMOFO]

looks to me like the issue is there are too many damn people on this rock. keep it in the pants boys. We's is cutting back for a while.

[TheTravkes05]

glad yall morons like how well the video was... yeah great message about somethin everyone who isnt "city ignorant" already knows.. way to waste time and money and human recources on tellin us what we already know. if you cant give us a logical answer to this dilemma then dont waste or time, i havent read a logical resopnse on this post yet... small local farms cant survive in this enconomy for one and the very next comment suggested "reducing the population ??? way to go University of Minnesota

[Luis Carlos Zardo]

Why don´t we just reduce our fracking POPULATION????? It´s plain simply STUPID to even THINK about how to improve our food production to few 10 billion when we cannot feed the current SEVEN billion

Great video until the "solutions" are presented...

[Nicolás Palacios]

I feel as if you changed the title of the video, the aproach to the viewer would change as well... this message could get well difunded and have a much bigger impact than 33k views