Where are the Farms?

I work in an industrial area outside Phoenix. There is a major train line going through the area, lots of industrial buildings almost surrounded by farm land. When I drive to work I see these big signs posted on that farm land advertising it for sale for industrial or homes. It saddens me that to think of how the area looked when I was younger and my parents used to take us for drives and you could see mostly farms out there and now it is full of housing developments and industrial areas going up as fast as could be.

Is there going to be some point where there won't be enough farms to support our needs? Will someone step in before that happens? It is almost the same as in South American and Africa where they cut down the rain forest to make room for people and their cattle or farms. We are doing the same, but instead of farms and cattle, we are putting houses and factories.

It makes me sad to see the land being gobbled up in this way. But, where else are people going to live? Maybe in the future we will have a society like in the 70's movie 'Logan's Run'.

This is one man's opinion.