Self-study
Kim: Conclusion The rapidly growing world population is increasing demands on food producers in ways that threaten our natural resources. ████ ████ ████ ██████ ███ ████ ████ ██████████ ███ █████ ██████ ████ ████ ████ ██ █████████ ███ ███████ ███ ████████ █████████
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Speaker 1 Summary
Kim claims that the growing world population is threatening nature by causing increased demand for food production. To support the idea that there’s a threat, Kim explains that the demands of a larger population will require more land use, thereby reducing the land available to wildlife.
Speaker 2 Summary
Hampton believes that the harm to nature won’t be as bad as Kim thinks. This conclusion isn’t stated, but is implied by Hampton’s claims that Kim is overlooking the impact of technology, and that technology will allow farmers to produce enough food without using more land.
Objective
We need to find an agreement between Kim and Hampton. They agree that the world population is growing and will need more food, and seem to agree about the general goal of protecting nature.
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Neither speaker makes either of these claims. Firstly, no one brings up the idea of slowing population growth. Secondly, both Kim and Hampton are favorable to limiting the amount of land used for agriculture, not increasing it.
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Kim would agree with this in order to limit the harm population growth will cause to nature. Hampton would also agree, as shown by the use of words like “promise” and “improvement” to discuss these advancements in a positive light. This is a point of agreement.
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Neither speaker discusses increasing the density of urban areas; nor do either of them talk about protecting agricultural land from urban sprawl.
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Kim can reasonably be said to agree with this. However, Hampton does not necessarily agree: Hampton claims that increased food production likely won’t erode habitats or forests, and doesn’t talk about any other factor that would.
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Neither speaker talks about modifying human diets. Additionally, although Kim is concerned about a threat to natural resources, neither Kim nor Hampton talks about a total depletion of resources.