On page 2 of Passage 2, why does the author cite population statistics? to show that permaculture farming can be used to replace even the largest of the farms around the world to suggest that feeding all of the people on Earth may require a larger scale than permaculture can manage to demonstrate the urgency with which people around the world need to begin using sustainable agriculture to imply that permaculture and conventional farming must work together to ensure sufficient food for the increasing number of humans on Earth
