Crispy Coal Covert 48th Edition

CROP’S COST Beneath the topsoil Your average carrot or head of cabbage probably isn’t the first thing you think of when you think about climate change, is it? Or even when focusing about food production and climate change.

But just growing crops does in fact contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. Though not as intensive as livestock emissions, considering the amount of vegetables, fruits, and grains we consume daily along with the amount of resources and land needed to grow such a large quantity of crops, then maybe then it isn’t so hard to picture.

FERTILIZER is a main contributor to emissions related to crop growth. Most conventional crop production utilizes Synthetic Nitrogen Fertilizers which is produced from fossil fuels (FoodPrint) and with the increase of demand for such fertilizers, there is also an increase in atmospheric nitrous oxide, “Methane is being covered a greenhouse gas produced from the transformation more and more heavily. It’s of nitrogen in soil with 300 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (Shankman) and made up time for nitrous oxide to be 7% of US greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 (Overview covered more too” of Greenhouse Gases). Another popular type of - Ron Dobosy, a researcher who fertilizer also full of nitrogen is manure. Of course, plants need nitrogen to grow, but if there is an excess found not just methane in the Arctics amount of nitrogen, that’s where things get a it permafrost, but also nitrous oxide worrying. You see, when maure doesn’t get enough (Shankman) oxygen, that’s when it starts turning into atmospheric nitrous oxide. So when farmers add more manure than they need, maure tends to get pack in, therefore leaving less air for them to breathe making the perfect environment for them turn into N2O, nitrous oxide. And that’s just part of it, not to mention manures contribution with methane, but we’ll get to that once we look at livestock.