Kim: The rapidly growing world population is increasing demands of 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 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
Agricultural and wilderness areas need to be protected from urban encroachment by preparing urban areas for greater population density.