SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Wicket-Keeper, Pesticide, Sustainability

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Ecology
• Course: SOCECOL E8
• Professor: John M.Whiteley

Document Summary

Becoming more and more obese over time. 30 to 50% of the total food produced is wasted. Much more food wasted in industrialized world than in developing countries. Food can be wasted due to quality standards. Insufficient purchase planning, expiring best before dates and. What are the environmental impacts of agriculture? careless attitudes of consumers lead to waste. Agriculture produces about 26% of anthropogenic ghg emissions. Covers about 43% of the world"s ice and desert-free land. 87% of this land is used for food. 13% is used for biofuels and textile crops or is allocated to nonfood uses. About 75% of freshwater withdrawals are used for irrigation. Adverse human effects (workers and consumers) including cancer and reproductive issues. May kill plants, bees, butterflies, fish, birds, and other animals. Requires more feed, more land, releases ghg. Produce methane gas and nitrous oxide which is heavily more detrimental to the our climate than carbon dioxide. We consume avg 3 burgers per wk.