TWC Week 7

This week's lecture was a continuation of the Bio business revolution, and was focused on the agricultural and environmental side., with an important emphasis on being able to supply the world with enough food.

An interesting observation that caught my attention was despite the modernized world we live in today, there's still a significant chunk of the world's population who do not have enough to eat and are in danger of starvation, especially with more than enough food for the world's population.

I had a couple of key take away points from the session with regards to food security. It seems that the trend to solve the food supply issue is through using technology like genetically modified food, which is bringing us into uncharted areas, especially since nobody knows the long term health effects of consumption of GM food. Another key takeaway point would be the increasingly urgent need for us to settle our waste as our world continues to progress. Recycling biomass has been increasingly common today, but something still needs to be done about non biodegradable waste like plastics.

I feel that an issue for further discussion could be despite the new and evolving technologies to solve our increasingly urgent food supply and environmental issues, will we one day reach a point where the problems become so huge that technology will not be able to solve these issues anymore?

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