David A. Cleveland
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520277410
- eISBN:
- 9780520957084
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520277410.003.0009
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
Agrifood systems divert resources from biogeochemical cycles (e.g., carbon and nitrogen cycles) to produce food, with major negative effects, including global warming. Global warming is changing ...
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Agrifood systems divert resources from biogeochemical cycles (e.g., carbon and nitrogen cycles) to produce food, with major negative effects, including global warming. Global warming is changing water distribution and temperatures that will have mostly negative effects on agrifood systems. Changes in the agrifood systems could make major contributions to decreasing greenhouse gas emissions (e.g., sequestering soil carbon with organic fertilizers and reducing tillage; reducing fossil fuel use; reducing food waste; and reducing animal, processed, and imported foods in diets). These changes will require changed assumptions and behaviors, but could also have major synergistic effects. For example, in addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, changing diets could improve health, reduce medical costs, reduce water consumption, and free large areas of land devoted to animal food production.Less
Agrifood systems divert resources from biogeochemical cycles (e.g., carbon and nitrogen cycles) to produce food, with major negative effects, including global warming. Global warming is changing water distribution and temperatures that will have mostly negative effects on agrifood systems. Changes in the agrifood systems could make major contributions to decreasing greenhouse gas emissions (e.g., sequestering soil carbon with organic fertilizers and reducing tillage; reducing fossil fuel use; reducing food waste; and reducing animal, processed, and imported foods in diets). These changes will require changed assumptions and behaviors, but could also have major synergistic effects. For example, in addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, changing diets could improve health, reduce medical costs, reduce water consumption, and free large areas of land devoted to animal food production.
Richard Landes
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199753598
- eISBN:
- 9780199897445
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199753598.003.0015
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
The conclusion contrasts the response in the West to the two most empirically based, contemporary, apocalyptic prophecies, namely anthropogenic global [climate] warming (AGW) and global jihad warming ...
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The conclusion contrasts the response in the West to the two most empirically based, contemporary, apocalyptic prophecies, namely anthropogenic global [climate] warming (AGW) and global jihad warming (GJW). It explores why the roosters on AGW are owls on GJW and vice-versa, an anomalous situation given that our dependence on petroleum makes both threats significantly worse. It explores the dynamics of postmodern self-criticism and premodern scapegoating and the dysfunctional ways they combine in our current assessments of the threats that face us in the new, third millennium.Less
The conclusion contrasts the response in the West to the two most empirically based, contemporary, apocalyptic prophecies, namely anthropogenic global [climate] warming (AGW) and global jihad warming (GJW). It explores why the roosters on AGW are owls on GJW and vice-versa, an anomalous situation given that our dependence on petroleum makes both threats significantly worse. It explores the dynamics of postmodern self-criticism and premodern scapegoating and the dysfunctional ways they combine in our current assessments of the threats that face us in the new, third millennium.