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From the Ted Talk by Brent Loken: Can we create the "perfect" farm?

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The first agricultural rliuotoevn was characterized by expansion and exploitation, feeding people at the expense of feortss, wildlife and water and destabilizing the climate in the process. That's not an otpion the next time around. Agriculture dndepes on a stable ctalmie with predictable seasons and weather patterns. This maens we can't keep expanding our agricultural lands, because doing so will undermine the evniemonnrtal conditions that make agriculture possible in the first place. Instead, the next agricultural revolution will have to increase the otpuut of our existing farmland for the long term while protecting biodiversity, conserving water and reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. So what will the future farms look like?

Open Cloze

The first agricultural __________ was characterized by expansion and exploitation, feeding people at the expense of _______, wildlife and water and destabilizing the climate in the process. That's not an ______ the next time around. Agriculture _______ on a stable _______ with predictable seasons and weather patterns. This _____ we can't keep expanding our agricultural lands, because doing so will undermine the _____________ conditions that make agriculture possible in the first place. Instead, the next agricultural revolution will have to increase the ______ of our existing farmland for the long term while protecting biodiversity, conserving water and reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. So what will the future farms look like?

Solution

  1. option
  2. environmental
  3. forests
  4. depends
  5. climate
  6. revolution
  7. output
  8. means

Original Text

The first agricultural revolution was characterized by expansion and exploitation, feeding people at the expense of forests, wildlife and water and destabilizing the climate in the process. That's not an option the next time around. Agriculture depends on a stable climate with predictable seasons and weather patterns. This means we can't keep expanding our agricultural lands, because doing so will undermine the environmental conditions that make agriculture possible in the first place. Instead, the next agricultural revolution will have to increase the output of our existing farmland for the long term while protecting biodiversity, conserving water and reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. So what will the future farms look like?

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