The Other Inconvenient Truth

While researching the environmental impacts of increased meat consumption, I came across an excellent TED Talk by Jonathan Foley titled The Other Inconvenient Truth. He describes the current state of the food system and identifies the need for future solutions so that we can feed 9 billion people by 2040. He covers some examples of the environmental impacts of  the modern agricultural system, including the drying of the Aral Sea and rainforest degradation in South America. His talk provides a really nice review of some of the information covered in Are Humans Becoming More Carnivorous? as well as a nice segue into some of the future topics that we'll be exploring here.

If you have twenty minutes to spare, you can check out his talk below.

If not, here's the short and compelling clip that Jonathan shows at the end of his talk.

Thanks for reading!