Anglais - Repenser la ville

Thèmes abordés

anglais, ville, nouvelle agriculture, alimentation, urbanisation

Résumé du document

Le document est un devoir corrigé de niveau terminale en deux parties :
- Réalisation d'une synthèse à partir des documents fournis
- Traduction d'un texte

Extraits

[...] Avec des terres qui ne sont pas extensibles, la seule idée est de faire pousser de la nourriture sous terre et de laisser l'espace terrestre en surface aux gens. Aussi étrange que cela puisse paraître au cœur de la ville, ce genre d'agriculture pourrait bien se généraliser bientôt dans la mesure où la demande pour une nourriture biologique et produite localement augmente en même temps que l'usage de la voiture décline. Des fermes souterraines ont vu le jour dans d'autres villes importantes telles que Londres et New York. [...]

[...] What if overpopulation leads us to grow animals underground as well? Unfortunately, to me, prospects for the future in this area are bleak. On top of that, even if it is quite useful to make nowadays' agriculture evolve and use new technologies to produce locally - and thus reduce the carbon footprint - another element, which is not mentioned but which is going to be crucial in the future, is the solidarity which has to be enhanced between people. Thus, it would be for example a good idea to encourage the development of shared gardens. [...]

[...] Anglais - Repenser la ville 1 - Synthesis In today's world, sustainability, together with feeding the world's population, have become burning issues. Thus, predications of a nine-billion population on earth by 2050 raise the question of how to combine enough space to grow food and enough space for all inhabitants to live decently. This may amount to square the circle for scientists, farmers and politicians altogether. There are two main ideas at stake in the three up-to-date documents: - First, the idea of using abandoned underground places, like car parks for example, or any other deserted offices, industrial buildings or rooftops to grow food. [...]

[...] - Then, the second idea is to develop vertical farms indoors. However, even if verticality may be a way to solve the problem of space and let more space for people to live, the experience has proved to be both expensive and not always more sustainable, because it requires much electricity (whose prices have recently skyrocketed) and it does not necessarily pollute less than traditional agriculture. On the whole, the three documents convey the positive idea that skilled and innovative scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs are doing their best in order to tackle the problem of sustainability as far as food is concerned. [...]