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Journey 2050 Lesson 7: Technology & Innovation | Self-Guided Experience

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    PRESENTER: This is the Journey 2050
    self-guided experience.
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    You are on lesson seven
    on innovation and technology.
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    For step two of this lesson,
    you're going to pause this video
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    and start watching
    the TED talk that's called,
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    "A global food crisis
    may be less than a decade away."
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    Note that you're only going to watch the t--first 2 minutes and 29 seconds of this particular TED talk,
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    and then you're going to consider a statement that Sara makes in this TED talk and respond to it on your handout.
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    After you're done with step two,
    move right on to step three,
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    and that is to watch the "Journey 2050
    Technology and Innovation" video,
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    and then answer the three questions.
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    So, with those instructions
    pause this video until you,
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    finish step three on your handout.
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    You should have just finished the
    Technology and Innovation video,
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    and hopefully you have, also
    answered the three questions.
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    But just to,
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    reiterate this reflection just a little
    bit make sure that you're taking time,
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    to think about which innovation
    you think is most impactful,
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    and what some of the pros
    and cons of these new technologies,
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    could be in relation
    to our sustainability.
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    For step four of the lesson, I want
    to discuss just a little bit to,
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    make sure you understand the difference,
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    between a developing country
    and a developed country.
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    Developed countries are
    industrialized. You know,
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    they have high standards of living,
    they have strong economic growth.
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    Developing countries
    are typically agrarian,
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    meaning that they're not industrialized.
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    They're more centered around
    agriculture, with more people,
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    participating in agriculture.
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    Um, they also have,
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    lower standards of living, and they quite
    often have a weak economy with slow,
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    or even nonexistent growth.
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    So, make sure that you keep these in mind,
    uh, as we move on to step four.
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    For step four of the lesson,
    you're going to pause this video,
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    and go back to the TED talk
    that you started in step two,
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    and you're going to finish
    watching the rest of the Ted talk,
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    and answer the questions on your handout.
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    We're now on step five
    of your handout. And,
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    what I want to do in this step is really
    try to pull a lot of things together that,
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    we have learned throughout the
    entire "Journey 2050" program.
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    We're coming to the end,
    we're almost there.
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    But, I want to ask you a question.
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    How do consumers like yourself
    influence what producers grow?
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    Take a minute to just,
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    think about that and think about
    you, yourself as a consumer,
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    How do you influence what producers grow?
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    If you think back to lesson,
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    four, on economies, we talked
    about the law of supply and demand,
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    and we discussed how
    when there is a high demand,
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    that the price, prices go up and
    more things are produced.
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    When there's low demand,
    prices go down and less of,
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    that will eventually be produced.
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    So, you as a consumer
    have the ability to influence,
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    what producers, or farmers, same thing,
    what producers grow and how they grow it.
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    So your choices will impact
    overall sustainability,
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    throughout your life.
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    In summary, I want to talk about,
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    three ways we can expand
    our capacity to produce food.
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    The first is by developing and
    implementing new technologies.
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    We talked about best management practices
    throughout the "Journey 2050" program.
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    Those best management practices
    are going to change throughout your life,
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    as new things are discovered, as research
    is done, and we're going to continue,
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    finding better ways and better
    technologies to use our resources wisely.
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    The second is to help developing countries
    improve their farming efficiency.
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    The third and the last is learning
    how consumer choices,
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    can either support or challenge
    food sustainability.
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    To finish up this lesson,
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    go ahead and review the key points
    that are found at the end of your handout.
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    Congratulations!
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    This marks the end of the entire
    "Journey 2050" program.
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    You should at this point
    be able to answer the question,
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    How can we sustainably feed nearly
    10 billion people by the year 2050?
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    Hope you've enjoyed the path.
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Journey 2050 Lesson 7: Technology & Innovation | Self-Guided Experience
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