It is not only Green Technology that must advance in the coming years but also Blue Technology also known as AquaCulture and MariCulture depending on how far from the shoreline it is.

Everyone has heard of Climate Change however no one seems to know what exactly to do about it.

When you truly understand a problem, only then will you know what to do about it.

In the modern era most farmland has been used to grow single crop monocultures pushing productivity up in exchange for an increased burden on the farmland.

These advanced farming practices made their way from where they were pioneered in places like the United States and Europe into the developing nations of the world jump starting in even greater wave of global urbanization in bringing the percentage of people employed by agriculture from 44% in 1991 all the way down to 26% and falling in current times.

This increase in productivity despite a substantial decrease in total people working in agriculture granted more people access to secure sources of food than ever before and as a result ushered in a new era of stability and prosperity around the world.

For all of the positive change that has come about because of these advances we call this the "Green Revolution" and in a lot of ways to the world a lot of good there are no perfect solutions to a problem as complex as feeding 7.8 billion people Matthew irrigation means that now 70% of our fresh water goes to agriculture making places like California vulnerable to water insecurity despite there being more than enough water to go around all in the name of sustaining the state's agricultural economy the process of manufacturing nitrogen for fertilizers is fossil fuel intensive juicy the least and extracting phosphorus the other important ingredient in fertilizers relies on a limited in rapidly depleting supply Just kill pests but rather anything that comes into contact with them in through leaking into their surroundings have decimated what natural environments there are left surrounding farmlands and now approximately 25% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, on top of that land is limited.

Only 29% of the Earth's surface is land and off that 10% is under glaciers or ice in 19% is utterly barren desert or tundra, leaving only 71% of the land on earth as habitable of this 50% or path of all habitable land on earth is dedicated to agriculture with the remainder split 37% into forests 11% for shrub or grasslands 1% are freshwater areas like legs and all of our cities and urban environments fit into just over 1% as well to make matters even worth of this agricultural land 77% of it is dedicated to the raising of livestock Stop 23% is used to grow actually crops if that doesn't strike you as a gross misuse of land let me put it this way if we look at where our calories come from meat products only supply us with 18% of our daily calories on average of course wild plants provide us with 82% of what we eat even if we look at where we get our protein from still less than half only 37% of our protein comes from meat while plants still do the heavy lifting here supplying us with 63% the shows us is that growing livestock is incredibly inefficient use of land and altogether this makes traditional land based agriculture the main culprit in the global degradation of natural environments on earth.