The Changing Future

There are many new, life-changing laws, decrees, and practices that would affect all of us. This includes agricultural innovations, technology, and even slowing/halting the process of global warming by Geo engineering. However, the world is growing quickly and the annual crop yields are coming shorter and shorter by the year. The First Green Revolution had been started in the 1920s-1930s by the introduction of synthetic fertilizer made primarily of fossil fuels. This fertilizer made the soil much more productive, and even made some parts of the land arable; However, The Green Revolution required billions of raw materials, which included fossil fuels (the most important ingredient), sulfur, iron, magnesium, copper and zinc. However, the 2nd Green Revolution js focusing on the genetic mutation of plants to create hardier, immunized-against-diseases, faster-growing crops. Instead, the cost for this new Agricultural Age would require billions of tons of raw data. This Second Green Revolution would require an alliance between organic-farmers (Farmers who only want to grow food organically, even without fertilizer) and genetic scientists.

An example of this was the recent ongoing process of rice immunization of xanthamonas, a bacteria that decimated rice harvests all over Asia. As scientists continue their work on immunizing rice against Xanthamonas, they also believes bananas (which are being obliterated by a disease in East Africa) would also be able to have full immunity against Xanthamonas, as most edible bananas were cloned and therefore shared the same genes (which makes them very susceptible to plagues and blights). As the First Green Revolution demanded, and used up over a billion ton of resources (literally), genetic scientists plans to reduce the usage of fertilizers and increase the crops' "dependencies" on phosphorus (as it is found on the topsoil), and make it roots grow deeper and further to promote faster and even larger crop growth. The Green Revolution had its consequences: Agricultural runoff, usually poisonous, contaminated some freshwater supplies and created "dead zones" around oceans where that region was unusable. As well as the enormous cost of natural elements, scientists are also fighting countless nature activists who  resist the genetically-enhanced crops. In turn, the activists are accused of imperialism and extreme greed, and vague of the current world situation.However, no matter how much crops can be enhanced, they must be harvested, weeded, watered, and grown.

Water will grow to be a continuous, nagging problem in agricultural advances as well as pessimistic farmers who believe there is a limit to the amount of grown food, and the scientists should not go too far in their quest to stop hunger. Even Arpa-E, who sends grants to colleges and groups in order a spark a new Energy Revolution in 20 years, could get involved in this in order to speed up the process.

In addition, most organic farmers believe that genetically enhancing the soil or the crops would cause harm to the consumers and even the environment around them. Genetic scientists have deconstructed the genetic code which gives the rice immunity to Xanthomonas, which happens to be Xa21-106/TP309. This "hardened" rice crop had been cultivated by Pamela Ronald, but the rice had strangely not been (and still is not) accepted by the Chinese Department of Agriculture.