Our Needs, Our Problem!

         
Cattle and sheep on a global scale provide families with food and clothing. Both of these animals excrete an absurd amount of methane gas, which is one key factor that leads to and increase of global warming. According to timeforchange.org in an article called, “Are cows to bale for global warming,” “According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) agriculture is responsible for 18% of the total release of greenhouse gases world-wide… Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious environmental problems.” Meaning that the livestock that we are consuming have been slowly but greatly been chipping away at our atmosphere. The way we are choosing to live, in the long run, if nothing is done to try to fix this, or at least to greatly reduce this- very well maybe the way we as a planet will fail.

            Secondly, through the use of pesticides, and fertilizers, chemicals have been quickly dispersed and absorbed into the ground and plants.   The soil itself is recycled over and over, through many generations. Water run off from the fields are then led off into sewers, rivers, ponds and lakes which all end up in the ocean. That runoff is being mixed into the water, humans, plants and animals, are all being affected by this. According to conserve-energy-future.com, "As a result, the crops are exposed to water which has small amounts of mercury, arsenic, lead and cadmium dissolved in it. The process of agricultural pollution becomes harder to fight when such water poisons the livestock and causes crop failure." Meaning while the chemicals are in the soil, they get absorbed by the plant, which we in turn eat. Water, the most valuable resource on earth is being contaminated because of the chemicals used to prevent insects from affecting our food source. 

     

"Effects of Air Pollution on Humans, Plants and Animals." Effects of Air Pollution on Humans, Plants and Animals. Web. 13 Apr. 2015. <http://eschooltoday.com/pollution/air-pollution/effects-of-air-pollution.html>.