Earth's Climate Change

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Livestock and agriculture is a large part to why earth’s climate change is complication in today 's time. It is a factual drawback with the evidence and data to support its being. Though the time finding plausible facts about cow grazing, our group made an agreement on what is actually a true based fact for then just a myth. It has been a known and analyzed fact livestock produces a chemical called methane that emits into our world 's atmosphere and is known as the leading cause to why our world is heating up. “Twenty percent of methane in the world is emitted from cows which comes from their digestive system, depending on if they burp or release waste from their rectums. Within their waste billions of bacteria is released due to plant matter, …show more content…
Yes, as our group investigated the air is very important affair, but little did we come to register that another substantial section comes to the loss of freshwater. The resource of freshwater is scarce, scarce to the point where we can possibly run out in the next few centuries. Grazing in the Amazon contributes to loss of freshwater by more than anyone could expect because of what the cows need to survive to produce meat and dairy produces. “For one, agricultural areas like the is the leading cause of ocean dead zones. It 's not freshwater but with not enough oxygen in the ocean it will lead to major biodiversity loss. One thousand gallons of irrigation water which is freshwater is used to produce a quarter pound of animal protein. Fourteen trillion gallons annually water crops grown to feed livestock, this includes grass but mostly corn bases,” (More and Clean Water). Water and especially freshwater is one of the top most significant resource we have in our world, us as humans need it to live and prosper happily, but also the environment requires it the most for it to develop normally and for it to remain. How the facts on freshwater are measured and collected is from the farmers and grazers themselves. As they use it for multiple conditions in the pastures they have to document how much they are using. This gives researchers the figures and facts on how much …show more content…
We chose this website particularly because of the factual information we received from it, it had certain data facts that focused on the water wastes and how it was affecting us personally. Going off of that we went on to the Center for Science in the Public Internet website, what we gathered is that this website helped us with understanding cow’s bodily gases are indeed a factor of global warming, it is because when they release gas it is methane that is flowing in the

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