Also more food is required so more intensive farming methods are used. Transport system Transport systems can have many bad effects on the environment, one of them being exhaust emissions, the more populated area the higher the emissions. Also when a car for example breaks and has to be scraped if parts of the car are not properly disposed of like the oil and battery it can cause lots of damage to air pollution and the environment. Also Transport infrastructure (such as roads or parking spaces) covers 25-30 per cent of land in most
When there is rain the forests holds a lot of rainfall to the soil through roots of plants. The water then sinks deeper in the ground and replenishes the supply of the water table. If there was the removal of these forests then water from rain would flow simply through the soil surface and not be retained. Another effect may be the water from rain will not stay in the soil at all and the process of evaporation would immediately set in therefore not replenishing water table. This would lead to wells drying up.
Palmer goes on to writes “The cotton plant needs about 50 percent more water per season than hemp, which can grow with little irrigation…cotton uses more than four times as much water as hemp” (Palmer). Along with what Brian Palmer wrote, Kristoffer James right in his article “Why to Choose Hemp Over Cotton” writes “Cotton consumes 25% of the world’s insecticides and 10% of the world’s pesticides… Most hemp is grown without pesticides/insecticides” (James). Kristoffer James goes on to write “It takes about 1,400 gallons of water to produce just one pound of cotton… Hemp requires only half that” (James). Both Palmer and James show that
Disappearing Water Do to the lack of rain in many areas of Central Asia, farmers have been running into many irrigation problems. With population growth around fifteen percent more food is necessary, therefore more water is needed. This is a problem because water is running out. The area of Uzbekistan, formerly part of the Soviet Union, had twenty thousand miles of canals, forty-five dams, and eighty reservoirs. These irrigation techniques actually made Uzbekistan into one of the best cotton growing areas in the world.
Fracking also created huge natural losses such as it crates pollution, destruction of forests to create its pipe lines. The pipe lines they use are also not long lasting as there is gas vapors in water because of leakage in pipe lines. From every twenty pipe lines, one is leaking that increases pollution. Gas burners used to store natural gas creates noise pollution more than a jet engine. It also have connection to increasing sexual diseases.
Deforestation results from the removal of trees without sufficient reforestation (the replacement of trees). As a whole, deforestation reduces biodiversity, which is the variation of life forms, and negatively impacts the climate and geography not only in the United States, but also around the world. Some of the problems that need to be acknowledged range from forest fires to the lack of national policies
How accurate is it to say that Mao Zedong’s agricultural policies from 1949 were the most important reason for the famine of 1959-62? Mao introduced many agricultural policies during the build-up to the great famine in 1959-62. Many policies, such as Collectivisation, have been criticised by many historians as being the most important factor in determining the great famine. However, there were also factors outside of Mao’s agricultural policies such as the conspiracy of silence and the fact that China had poor weather in the year leading up to the famine. Collectivisation was a major cause of the great famine.
Acid Rain in North America is a very serious issue which needs to be addressed. It affects the environment in many different ways affecting, lakes, trees, animal, and other living things. If people are willing to help, the chances of disaster will be decrease, but if actions do not take place, then the acid rain will cause a lot of damages to the environment. Wet deposition is a form of acid deposition which includes fog or snow. In this process acidic water flows over and through the ground and affects varieties of plants and animals.
Economic growth has been limited because of the droughts. The droughts usually send the economy into a severe recession. The most important food crops are millet and sorghum. Cotton, rice, sugar, and market garden produce are also grown. The farms are primarily small; two-thirds of the country’s farms are less than ten acres.
This system costs 750 Billion Rupees ($13.6 billion) a year, almost 1 percent if India’s gross domestic product. One-fifth of India’s people are malnourished; double the rate of other developing countries like Vietnam and China because of pervasive corruption, mismanagement and waste in the programs that are supposed to distribute food to the poor. Under the FDS, the federal government buys grain from farmers at prices high enough to keep farmers lobby happy and stores the food in warehouses. Each state then takes a certain amount of grain from these stocks based on how many of its residents are poor. Lastly, these states distribute food at subsidized prices through what are called ration shops.