Kim: The rapidly growing world population is increasing demands on food producers in ways that threaten our natural resources. With more land needed for both food production and urban areas, less land will be available for forests and wildlife habitats.
Hampton: You are overlooking the promise of technology. I am confident that improvements in agriculture will allow for us to feed the world population of ten billion predicted for 2050 without significantly increasing the percentage of the world's land now devoted to agriculture.
Kim's and Hampton's statements most strongly support the claim that booth of them would agree which one of the following
B) Continued research into more-efficient agricultural practices and innovative biotechnology aimed at producing more food on less land would be beneficial.
D) In the next half century, human population growth will continue to erode wildlife habitats and diminish forests.
I put D because
1) "without significantly increasing the percentage of the world's land now devoted to agriculture" Implies although not significant but some increase of land devoted to agriculture will occur.
2) "Kim's and Hampton's statements most strongly support " It said Kim's and Hampton's statements NOT Kim or Hampton. Neither one talked about biotech. Kim just talked about land and nothing about efficiency. Although I do somewhat agree that Kim and Hampton might agree on B but their statements as present do not. Furthermore its more of a stretch then D which is explicit.
Please have input.
Hampton: You are overlooking the promise of technology. I am confident that improvements in agriculture will allow for us to feed the world population of ten billion predicted for 2050 without significantly increasing the percentage of the world's land now devoted to agriculture.
Kim's and Hampton's statements most strongly support the claim that booth of them would agree which one of the following
B) Continued research into more-efficient agricultural practices and innovative biotechnology aimed at producing more food on less land would be beneficial.
D) In the next half century, human population growth will continue to erode wildlife habitats and diminish forests.
I put D because
1) "without significantly increasing the percentage of the world's land now devoted to agriculture" Implies although not significant but some increase of land devoted to agriculture will occur.
2) "Kim's and Hampton's statements most strongly support " It said Kim's and Hampton's statements NOT Kim or Hampton. Neither one talked about biotech. Kim just talked about land and nothing about efficiency. Although I do somewhat agree that Kim and Hampton might agree on B but their statements as present do not. Furthermore its more of a stretch then D which is explicit.
Please have input.
