He illustrates how the country's huge industrial might has turned our natural, sun based food production system into a fossil-fuel based food production system. These fossil fuels process corn into feed for our livestock as a substitute for grass as well as corn syrup and other derivatives for humans in order to preserve packaged goods. Pollan argues that the switch to a fossil-fuel based system is toxic both to our environment as well as our bodies. ... The use of fossil-fuels is what allows the world to sustain a population nearing 7 billion people. ... The fossil fuels that Pollan deri...

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It seems one of the main drivers pushing China to excel in renewable energy is their current state of pollution. According to the article "Wind power generation in China: Understanding the mismatch between capacity and generation" by Mian Yang and others, China is the biggest emitter of CO2 in the ...

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In 2005, Jessica Prentice coined the word "locavore" at World Environment Day. Ever since then, people have debated whether or not we are better off eating only locally grown and produced food, instead of food flown in from around the world. The locavore movement is gaining in popularity, and is bo...

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To understand the magnitude of the pressures of resources and ecosystems it is useful to turn to the conceptual equation that is widely attributed to Paul R. Ehrlich (1968). Ehrlich was an American biologist and educator in the year 1968. The equation relates impact (I), to population (P), affluence...

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Nonrenewable resources, such as fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) and mineral deposits (iron, gold, and aluminum) are those in limited amounts that can only be replenished over extremely long periods of time. ...

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