Sustainable Agriculture: A Personal Overview
So through from my first blog in October, to my most recent blog posted a couple of days ago, I feel that a number of topics have been covered with sources of various publication dates providing alternative information regarding sustainable agriculture.
For me, I quite instinctively have a cynical view when it comes to changing from industries that we know work well - as our current alternatives sometimes don’t reach the same level of yield as the industries that damage the environment do. Another reason as to why I’m fairly pessimistic with alternatives is that I believe they require an extremely large participation, on a global scale - if we were to reduce our current carbon emissions that is so that the temperature by the end of the century will not have risen greater than 2 degrees. But I feel that to achieve such a demanding target would require a global agreement - something that was tried recently with COP21! But whether or not countries will stick to their targets is obviously a concern and issue, as politics can be an influencing power when it comes to sustainable alternatives for industries.
Despite this, I feel that through the research I have encountered in this blog, humans have came up with and utilised ideas in a sustainable manner - even though it has taken many years to produce - and so it is now time to see whether we can really put these alternatives to good use to meet our targets. I’ll end my final blog with this short but intriguing video about an American company who promotes sustainable agriculture in a futuristic manner:
Thank you for taking the time to read my blog & I hope you've enjoyed but also have thought about the issues I have talked about!
Joe Sanders
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