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Fossil Fuels in Agriculture
Transcript
Change your ways!
In order to reduce the fossil fuel output into our atmosphere we must:
- Buy Local
- Use "Green" transportation
- Turn off electricity when not in use
- R*****R*****R*****
Alternatives
Self-Consciousness
Renewable Energy
- If the world is aware of fossil fuel depletion, change will be imminent
- We need to develop renewable energy transportation
- All in hopes to halt global warming and mitigate climate change
Works Cited
- Pfeiffer, Dale Allen. Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society, 2006. Print.
- "What YOU Can Do | Climate Change Education | Washington State Department of Ecology." What YOU Can Do | Climate Change Education | Washington State Department of Ecology. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2015.
Climate Change
Types of Energy Input
Costs
Exosomatic
Endosomatic
VS.
Transformation of energy outside of the body,
ex Burning gas in a tractor
Metabolic transformation of calories into muscle energy in the body
- extinction of fossil fuels
- over consumption of FF means we have to find renewable energy
- The U.S. food system consumes 10 times more energy than it produces in food energy.
- Fossil Fuels represent 90% of exosomatic consumption
- Endosomatic energy is used to increase productivity with exosomatic energy
- current U.S. daily diet requires nearly three weeks of labor per capita to produce.
- As fossil fuels decline the energy to produce food declines as well.
Stats
- Total fossil fuel use in the United States has increased 20-fold in the last 4 decades.
- US consumes 20 to 30 times more fossil fuel energy per capita than people in developing
nations
Overview
- Biggest threats: gas/diesel, operation of machinery
- Eating Fossil Fuels: Without FF US could only sustain 2/3's of population and about 2 billion worldwide.
- excess fossil fuels means more greenhouse gas in atmosphere.