The Carrying Capacity of the Environment as it relates to Human Consumerism

The authors introduce and make an attempt to describe the main problems that present and future populations of the underdeveloped world will be facing to provide enough food for themeselves. This essay describes the anachronistic situation where underdeveloped countries grow, with big deal of economical efforts, agricultural products that eventually will be used to grow and feed cattle whose meat does constitutes the principal component of the western world diet. Should this practice be reduced, underdeveloped countries will be able to provide food for themeselves in large quantities. Ironically, meat diet and overfeeding, lead to a number of disease like overweight, heart attack which may lead to death. With the abnormal and speculative increase of oil price and with the "save the world from pollution" philosophy, farmers were induced, hoping to make more profit from their work, to turn their agricultural production into product which will be used to make ecological fuel like Ethanol, retrieving, by doing so, a lot of land and products from the food market.