8 - Agriculture

Deforestation is due for 80% to agriculture. It can be considered as a human activity or as a consequence of agriculture of both.

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The pictures in the background of card 9 should put you on the track!

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Agriculture does not use much fossil fuel, just enough to keep tractors running. Its carbon emissions are high, bu mainly because of methane and nitrous oxide.

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Agriculture does not emit much CO2 except from deforestation. Its carbon emissions mainly come from othe GHGs.

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Spraying crops does result in aerosols and air pollution, but not to the same extent as incomplete combustion from power plants.

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It doesn't matter if this link is not made, but it is true that agriculture can improve storage capacity through photosynthesis. This is the 0.4% principle (if we increased the soil's capacity to sequester carbon by even 0,4%, we would have a significant impact on CO2).

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Here, we are thinking mainly of pesticides (especially Roundup or neonicotinoids). No link with the climate, but an interesting relation to make.

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