Summary Of Plan B By Lester R Brown

In the article,” Why Bother” written by Michael Pollen, he explains how the environment has gotten very bad over time. He talks about sustainability, global warming, and the cheap-energy mind in his article. He tells us that we need to act now before the phenomenon gets worse. Have you paid attention to the environment lately? Have you noticed the rising temperature around the world? Have you noticed the melting of the ice caps? If you haven’t you are about to be in for a surprise. The world has gotten very bad and we need to act now. There are a lot of causes to the environmental problems. The main cause are from farmers all around the world. Farmers are a lot more technologically advanced then what they were 50 years ago compared to now. The problem with the farmers are the overuse of energy, erosion of the soil, and pollution. The answer to all of these problems is sustainable agriculture because it is more efficient and better for the environment.

The articles “The Climate Crisis at the End of Our Fork” by Anna Lappe and “Why Bother?” by Michael Pollan urge us to see the connections between food and the environment. In the article “The Climate Crisis at the End of Our Fork”, Lappe insists the methods used in food production and distribution have a massive impact on the planet. In the article “Why Bother”, Pollan provides us reasons why people should bother to help stop global warming. There are three main causes between food production and food distribution that play a big role in global warming. Changing the way food is produced and distributed could diminish the dangerous effects of global warming. However, in order to stop global warming everyone has to assist as a group instead of individuals.

Journal One in The Alternative by Galen Leonhardy, tells the story of a teacher who helps open an alternative school in Kozol Creek, Idaho, and the struggles he faces in attempting to implement a collaborative education process. The author writes of teachers who let students run free through the halls or simply ignored kids because they did not know how to handle them. He also writes of teachers who strive for a more personalized education by learning who their students are and understanding the environment from which they come. I have also dealt with both kinds of teachers in my educational experience, as I was a student of an alternative school. Mr. Lamar, to me, represents what a teacher should be. His personal dedication to making a difference in students’ lives and his willingness to go the extra mile by empowering students to take responsibility for their education changed how I perceived my own education. Mrs. Patton, on the other hand, is a teacher I would much rather forget. Her militarized style of teaching made learning an afterthought to the daily complications we encountered in the classroom. Both Mr. Lamar and Mrs. Patton taught me the importance of being included in your own education.

She says that the growing of so many crops is causing greenhouse gases. Michael Pollan says that everything is made of corn. Everything in today’s world that we consume, food or drink, is somehow made of corn. You may not know it, be able to taste it, but it is there. Niman suggests that reducing the amount of corn rapidly produced , would help better the planet. Tearing the land and invading nature to grow mass amounts of crops is causing our planet, our home to be destroyed. One way to save our home would be to stop the mass production of crops. Not only would this be saving the land, it would also help control the amount of carbon dioxide emissions that are released into the

The Climate Crisis at the End of Our Fork by Anna Lappé is an argumentative article that gives an unorthodox view to the probable causes and potential solutions of global warming. In the article, Lappé argues that many modern procedures for food production and distribution across the world have an astronomically negative effect on climatic change. Three different “connections” between food production, food distribution, and negative climatic change arise from the article: the “land use connection”, the “agricultural connection”, and the “waste and transportation connection.” Lappé also insists that changing the way food is produced and distributed around the world could decrease the harmful consequences of global warming rapidly, and ultimately

If the nation doesn’t adapt to these major impacts, then we will all end up dying. Food production is also dependent on how much cheap fossil fuel that is available. Cheap fossil fuel will no longer be available as a result of peak oil, so food production will also decrease. The cheap fossil fuel‘s energy will be needed for farm equipment. The energy will also be needed for irrigation and refrigeration. In the mean time, numerous poor ranchers who can 't manage the cost of apparatus, energizes and business homestead inputs end up off guard in the worldwide nourishment economy. Aggravating this are farming arrangements in industrialized nourishment sending out nations that sponsor household makers and dump surpluses onto creating nations, accordingly adding to the financial impediments of the smallholder ranchers in those nations. Accordingly, a huge number of those ranchers are consistently determined bankrupt yearly, those nations are giving expanding need to creation for fare and they are seeing a thriving landless poor urban class. The average foodstuff in America needs about 10 units of fossil fuel energy input for each unit of food energy that is obtained from the food. As energy inputs decline, food calories will decline as well. More products will be too expensive to make and more products will be too expensive for people to buy. This will impact the unemployed people more. Modern food systems are

non-conformance with the plan contingency plan Fraud Install surveillance equipments within the organization Devolved responsibilities Signed workplace staff responsibilities and accountability agreements Information security Limited access to the business information and data Reduction in client service Conduct marketing campaign On-going scrutiny by media Conduct the business networking with the media companies Breach of procedure Design the strict workplace staff separation and termination policies and procedures Employee relations All the employment contracts to be mutually signed and agreed upon Bushfires group life assurance Contamination All staffs have acquire the food preparation and processing certificates

It’s true base on The Race for What’s Left by Micheal T. Klare and World on the Edge by Lester Brown, throw out the both books, theses authors addressing the same people are facing problems that happening now. Authors influence that the water source having a negative impact on the nation, such as a country like Saudi Arabia's the overuse of the water and waste lots had a negative impact of farming land. Even though if there’s rain during the agricultural season. The crops still having a hard time to grow with potential as it needs. Due to burning fossil fuels (coal, natural gasoline, oil), and other greenhouse gasses are driving a rise in worldwide temperature and causing alterations in the climate system. It’s not only affecting the climate,

The book I chose to read for this project was Eaarth; Making a Life on a Tough New Planet written by Bill McKibben. He is an American environmental writer who has written several books about the environment. His biggest book was “The End of Nature” written in the late 1980’s which talked about climate change and how it has affected our planet. Bill McKibben is a renowned author known as a leading environmentalist and green activist. Eaarth places emphasis on the wrong doings the human race has already caused our planet and how it is time we ultimately address these issues. These problems we have neglected for some time now to a point where we have to finally change our habits

The current global population of 7.6 billion people is expected to reach 11.2 billion in 2100 (UN DESA), and as the Earth’s population continues to grow exponentially, the topic of environmental sustainability is being debated with increased urgency. In the past few years, many large-scale environmental issues have emerged due to human activities: climate change, air and water pollution, rising sea levels, habitat loss, species extinction, and worsening natural disasters are all becoming more and more prevalent. But perhaps our most immediate concern should be whether or not we will be able to continue feeding this ever-increasing population.

Rising temperatures and sea levels along with the growing amount of croplands that are becoming useless put our environment into unfavorable positions with bleak projected futures.

The world’s natural resources are quickly being used up to extinction or are very close to that. From different species of animals to the planet’s natural resources from natural gas to fresh water, our planet’s natural resources are quickly eroding. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has the prediction of complete water scarcity by 2025 to the 1.8 billion people that are predicted to be living in regions with absolutely no water available. (theguardian.com)

Though others choose to ignore it, I acknowledge the fact that our world is dying and it is our fault. This is caused mainly by greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide. Humans create new, seemingly better, technology and pollute the world with them. People feel as though they need technology, need fossil fuels, need to drive large, destructive trucks. In order to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, we need to change our food choices and habits by buying local food, growing our own food, and eating less meat.

Withgott and Laposata are clearly addressing and identifying issues that have and will arise that trouble our environment. The text describes how as the population grows, we will eventually run out of resources, if we do not find a solution or attempt to address these issues now.

For decades, humans have fooled themselves into believing that we would never deplete all of earth’s resources, but because we could not control the population this has become almost inevitable. Not only is the exhaustion of resources a problem we face, but the destruction of these resources is as well. This destruction includes continued urban growth, degradation of land and water resources, massive deforestation, and buildup of greenhouse gases. Pollutants such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), radiation, and pesticides are all physical environmental factors found in air, land, or water that are damaging the planet. They recognize no political boundaries. Not only are resources affected but nature and many of its elements are in danger. Populations are being wiped out, species, and communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms that are working parts of our life-support systems are being destroyed. These are all partly responsible for the delivery of ecosystem services, which are the most irreversible of all losses. Just one element of biodiversity, species diversity, is disappearing at a rate estimated to be 1000 to 10,000 times the "background" rate, which is the more or less constant extinction rate that biologists presume to occur naturally over