Posted on 04/01/2019 8:26:07 PM PDT by EdnaMode
You've probably heard statistics about how our diet affects the health of the planet. Like how a beef hamburger takes considerably more water and land to produce than a veggie burger or that around a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions stem from food production. In fact, there are websites that can calculate the carbon footprint of specific foods.
But you may not have considered how the food we eat contributes to the quality of the air we breathe.
Air pollution is the largest environmental health risk factor in the United States, and agriculture contributes in a number of ways. Fertilizer application, gas use, pesticide production and dust kicked up from tilling all affect air quality. But the sort of accounting done for the carbon footprint of foods hasn't been done for their air pollution footprint.
That changed Monday with a study published in Nature Sustainability. It modeled how the production of a single crop, corn, contributes to air pollution in the United States. The researchers found that corn production accounts for 4,300 premature deaths related to air pollution every year in the United States. Ammonia from fertilizer application was by far the largest contributor to corn's air pollution footprint.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
I subscribe to the NPR “food” RSS feed.
I’ve been tired of the constant drumbeat of illegal aliens good, unproven human caused climate change bad, etc. for a while.
Can’t we just shoot these assholes?
no more corn, no more corn flakes, corn muffins, cornbread, etc.
Ocasio-Cortez will be busy as she overhauls farming and ranching......
Fertilizer produced with hydrocarbons has allowed us to double the carrying capacity of the earth.
These “calculations” are stupid and insane.
https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-people-does-synthetic-fertilizer-feed
But.... We put corn in our gasoline. It is supposed to be so good that the government is going to force E15. One giant sham. With all the flooding in the Midwest people will starving so we can put corn in our gas tanks.
Soylent Green, it’s our only hope.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
– H. L. Mencken
50 years of failed apocalyptic forecasts
https://realclimatescience.com/fifty-years-of-failed-apocalyptic-forecasts/
Climate alarmists, and alarmists in general, are incompetent, dishonest hacks – who change their story every time the wind shifts. And no matter how many times they are wrong, they never lose credibility with the press.
Soylent Green is corn!
>>>Soylent Green is corn!<<<
I thought that was Soylent Yellow.
Banning corn production will get rid of high fructose corn syrup, affordable soft drinks and skyrocketing prices on sugar and beef and ethanol.
If they put NPR leftists into the Soylent Green, I ain’t eating it.
Cow farts to NPR.
Ah but corn is the left’s agenda driven priority for ethanol- so corn will always be exempt from climate regulations fines and taxes- only cows and meat and such will be targeted for extermination
Corn is one of the Three Sisters. Does that make it a target of the left?
Transpiration.
For Gorebal Warning, dihydrogen monoxide is the sausage [wurst].
Note: Just Kansas alone, produces enough wheat to provide five loaves of bread for every human on earth. That’s a month’s supply of food for everyone on earth.
Then add in the rest of the midwest farm belt...
But that requires fossil fuel to power the big machines, and more machines to get that grain to market, to the cities, etc.
If you want massive famine all over the world, just make it impossible to raise cattle, wheat, corn, chickens, hogs, etc. etc.
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