- Tue Nov 26, 2013 5:38 pm
#12820
Hello, GLMDYP,
D is, in fact, one of the points the two authors have in contention with each other. While Kim maintains that increased need for food will lead to increased amounts of land used for agriculture (thus eroding the forests), Hampton counters that there will be no land shortage, since technology will allow us to produce more food on the same amount of land (thus not endangering the forests).
B is better, since Hampton and Kim never dispute about what the problem is (increasing land requirements for an increasing population), just the degree to which it will be a problem in the future. They could easily be thought to agree that more efficient agriculture is beneficial - it directly helps to solve the problem they agree on.
Hope that helps,
Lucas Moreau
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