ENVS 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Carbon Dioxide Equivalent, Soil Fertility, Whopper
23 Nov 2017
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Envs 2130 eating sustainability in ontario unit 4. Read chapter 8 and 9 of the textbook, gomiero: is there a need for a more sustainable. Agriculture (pages 8-12), walsh: the triple whopper environmental impact of global. Meat production, gilbert: one-third of our ghg emission comes from agriculture. It causes for a displacement of local populations and loss of ecosystem services. In 2002, a total of 670 million tonnes of cereals were fed to livestock (30% total harvest: among the cereals made, more than 60% were maize and barley used to feed animals. 4. 1: our land: the greatest environmental impact of agriculture has been to our land, particularly in the form of soil degradation. There are many threats to the availability of good quality agricultural land. These threats include urban sprawl, desertification and deforestation. Soil integration is a very serious global problem because without a healthy soil it is impossible to have a large supply of food.
