Rosie Burroughs ( 2019, Feb 19). As awareness grows about foods role in climate change. What solutions exits? Civil Eats. Retrieved (2019, Feb 20) From:
Summary:
This article talks about the large role that food and agriculture play in the production of global greenhouse gases. The article suggests that it would take 5% reductions every year if we were to start now in order to get the climate change to a good place. The article also mentions how little people talk about agriculture affecting the environment even though it plays a large role. In California, there is an organization, that has been working since 2006 called the CalCan, and they have been working to reduce emissions from agriculture in any way possible.
Relation to Environmental science:
While in California people are more aware of the impact that agriculture is making on the environment, other stats are not. The CalCan is one of the only organizations focused on reducing emissions specifically from agriculture and it is worrying that people are unaware of this major factor that contributes to climate change. It is important to reduce emissions in various ways and have multiple solutions to climate change. Otherwise, we will not be able to fix it, and if people are missing a piece as big as agriculture, it could be bad for the future.
Why do you think it is that people are not paying attention to agriculture emissions?
Politicians avoid the topic of agricultural emissions a lot, some people are benefitting economically and therefore do not want to change what is happening in order to keep their money. Therefore, it is a topic that they try to keep from going too public.