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  • From: <activism98201@verizon.net>
  • To: TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net>, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org, emitch@att.net
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] NPR.org - Food &amp Climate: A Complicated but Optimis
  • Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:25:23 -0500 (CDT)

Somewhere in my notes, while doing biofuels research, I came upon these
statistics for contributors to greenhouse gas emissions:

14% - agriculture
18% - land activities, most associated with clearing land for agriculture

Adding the two together gives 32% as the percentage of greenhouse gas
emissions that are attributable to agriculture. And we want to crank up
agriculture so that we can _reduce_ emissions?


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


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From: TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net>

Thought this bit was worth special attention

"It's estimated that farming is involved in 20 percent to 25 percent of all
greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Large amounts of carbon dioxide are
released when farmers burn forests and grasslands in order to make way for
fields. Farmers also burn plenty of fossil fuels — to power their
tractors, harvesters and other equipment. In addition, when farmers plow
their fields, it introduces oxygen into the soil, causing microbes to
digest the organic carbon found in decomposed roots and leaves in the soil.
This also releases carbon dioxide."

I'm happy to know we're not into that vicious cycle ourselves, albeit small
scale to begin.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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