Daniel Quinn
THERE IS AN ELEPHANT in the room, and its name is Population. Whenever we start to discuss the global food crisis and its possible solutions, there is always a staunch unwillingness to look into the abyss at the population issue and its inevitable implications. After drafting plans for the Toronto Skyfarm, featured in the last Green Apple Pie blog entry Grasping at Grass, local architect Gordon Graff justified the high-tech hyper-densification of our agriculture by stating that “unless we want to start talking about human population control — which is politically impossible, in a democracy — we have to start considering new strategies… There’s either going to be massive famine, or we’ll have to condense our agricultural practice… Human beings have never shown the capacity to consume less… The simple fact is that, somehow, we have to find a way to produce more.”
