For better understanding Elizabeth Dickinson’s point of view, it is extremely important to realize main idea she uses to support her claim. In Elizabeth Dickinson’s article on the future of the global food system, she claims that people might be faced with future food crises and should seek various solutions about future food crises. Firstly, she supports her economic perspective by using statistical information and questionnaire surveys. The statistics give us information that numerous people, who live in poor countries, have suffered from hunger and seek possible ways to reduce hunger rates. In reality, she argues through the data shows the arguments and debate for preventing shortage of food in the foreseeable future (“The Future of Food”). Overall Elizabeth emphasizes that food shortage will be extremely serious problems in the near future. The readers recognize those problems through various graphs and suggest potential ways to prevent food shortage. Therefore, Elizabeth’s argument is expeditious in various ways.
Additionally, Elizabeth Dickinson’s argument is analytical and logical. Elizabeth’s point of view is the issue of the future of the global food system. Moreover, she approaches those issues primarily through an economic and political perspective. Begin with an example that shows her economic perspective through statistical information and questionnaire surveys. She states asking a political question, “On a scale of 1 to 10, how big an impact will rising food prices have on global political instability?” (“The Future of Food”). Elizabeth engages her readers through a creative question. The graph question describes the future food crisis to political perspective. Elizabeth gives readers time to think about the future crisis to political issue and prove other people thinking through the graph question. Therefore, readers can be deep in thought, when they read those questions. After deciding their own answers, they easily realize other people thinking and general answer through the graph. Therefore, Elizabeth’s handles food issues and solution through questionnaire surveys and show results to the graph thus appealing to logos. Therefore, readers can understand people’s seriousness of the issue. This article, as a result, includes both visual and written positive and negative aspects that have double-side character at the same time. All in all, this is strong argument on a sensitive issue that provokes various responses.
In conclusion, I think that preventing shortage of food is very serious an issue that overcome hunger in the world. Almost 35 years ago, south Korea also suffered from hunger. However, south Korea definitely recognized hunger problems and looked for solution to overcome hunger. As a result, I am very familiar to recognize this issue because in south Korea’s history book, there is a part of modern and contemporary history, so I learned about this issue. However, I do not expect that we will encounter food crisis at 2050. Therefore, we must devise various solutions for preventing shortage of food. Elizabeth Dickinson’s article offers all the information through visual examples from questionnaire surveys and statistical information. Elizabeth Dickinson explains about the future food crisis through visual by examples which are charts and graphs. These charts and graphs are based on data of researches. Moreover, Elizabeth presents variety of perspectives that are economic and politic perspectives about the future food crisis. Visual examples help readers to understand better on an issue because while readers read the article, they do not feel boring. Readers recognize problems and solutions easily through visual examples. Therefore, readers can recognize seriousness of the future food crisis and know other people’s thinking that relate the future food problems through graphs survey after reading her article. However, Elizabeth Dickinson’s article is insufficient to explain visual examples. As a result, visual examples can be positive and negative.
Work Cited
Elizabeth Dickinson. “The Future of Food.” Emerging. Ed. Barclay Barrios.
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