ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Urban Agriculture, Crop Rotation, Environmental Degradation
10 Jun 2016
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Anthro lecture 9: food production and global change. A component of urban agriculture is the practice of cultivating plant life within a skyscraper greenhouse or on vertically inclined surfaces. Benefits: locally producing food on a large scale, uses a lot less water, little or no pesticides, produces no agricultural runoff, increased yield by area. 40% of all food raised or grown is not being eaten. 1/3 of all the food produced globally is not being consumed. Farms waste food if they don"t have enough aesthetic appeal to be sold in supermarkets. Putting food into landfills causes anaerobic degradation leads to creation of methane gas, which is a greenhouse gas. Positive checks premature death (war, illness, famine, etc. ) Preventative checks postponement of marriage, delaying having children, etc. Any attempt to improve conditions of lower class would be. Optimists useless: logic-of-growth model, technology, modernity, and economic growth will solve our problems. Understanding relationship between humans and their environment, past and present.
