Life is a rat's race. Everyone wants to finish first. Everyone wants to make it big in life. Everyone wants to find a place in the world. As peoples' ambitions get bigger, they take actions to fulfill it. More and more people move from small towns and villages to the bigger cities where they hope to make their dreams a reality. As more and more people move to the cities, new buildings are made to accommodate them, more land is encroached and more trees are cut. Urbanization has been on the rise and it has been growing almost exponentially. Like we discussed in class, the trends in urbanization have been on a rise in almost every part of the world from Asia to Latin America. The rate at which we are becoming urban has increased the prospects of biobusiness across the world.
Biobusiness covers almost all fields from medicine and healthcare to agriculture and food services. Again, with biobusiness, the main focus should be on summit opportunities, ones with less competitors and high barriers to entry. Even with the growing scope of biobusiness and environmental sciences, there are concerns which cannot be ignored. For example, is genetic modification good and morally correct? Is it important to grow food or is it important to develop energy resources? There have been lots of debates going on about these topics and many more on similar lines. Indeed the world is split into two when it comes to controversial topics like these.
The growth in urbanization has been coupled with the growth in population. As the people in the world increase, the space and food availability reduces. This leads to problems like starvation and poverty. The common aim of people around the world is food security. It is the bare minimal to provide people with food and shelter. There could be several challenges to this as well. A broad classification of these challenges would be physical, economic, sociopolitical and physiological. The solution is to try and move towards a healthier and safer world where everyone at least can live peacefully if not luxuriously. If each of us take the initiative, we could make a great change. Small things like separating degradable and non degradable waste, recycling and reusing can be extremely impact full in the long run.
Among the readings, the one that interested me the most is the last one, looking into the future to see what the world is going to become. Will the current problems prevail or will we learn from our mistakes and help make a better future where at the least food is there for all?
Overall, my rating of the class: 8/10 :)
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