Tara Garnett's The Rise Of Vertical Farming

Since the conception of modern medicine in the dark ages, the human population has grown exponentially. Ironically enough the agricultural farming techniques have not grown at such a fast rate, leaving more than a billion of our fellow humans to starve. This semester I explored the topic of hunger and some sustainable options we could use to loosen its grip on the ‘bottom billion.’
Growing up in a community that was very conscious of our environmental impact, I find myself drawn to talk about the environmental problems we are currently facing. This interest lead me to open the Despommier article called, ‘The Rise of Vertical Farming.’ but the writers appeal to my emotions kept me reading. Despommier opens his essay painting a picture of the devastation that unsustainable farming leaves behind using

What role for life cycle assessment?" While Blay-Palmer’s piece was left out completely Garnett’s piece was downsized drastically. Garnett’s essay was conserved because it had that innate ethos seen in Butterly and Shepard’s piece, on account of her position at Oxford University. Garnett did help form the piece, but not as drastically as the conversation between Butterly and Shepard’s piece with my second source.
The second source is titled ‘The role of water harvesting to achieve sustainable agricultural intensification and resilience against water related shocks in sub-Saharan Africa.’ written by YT Dile, L. Karlberg, M. Temesgen, and J. Rockstrom. This source proves that the transition from open to close form is not as hard for all sources. This second source actually seemed to flourish in my editorial taking up multiple paragraphs, where in the original it sat awkwardly in between Blay-Palmer’s book and Tara Garnett’s essay, essentially being hindered by their