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The Change Of The Climate Change

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The world continues to spin and spin, and we’ve always heard about the condition of the climate. We hear about the changing levels of CO2 in our atmosphere and the Earth’s population contribution to the rise of it. No one usually stops to think about how the food production systems for the food we eat is also a contributing factor to the rise of CO2. “I turn my life upside-down, start biking to work, plant a big garden, turn down the thermostat so low I need the Jimmy Carter signature cardigan, forsake the clothes dryer for a laundry line across the yard, trade in the station wagon for a hybrid, get off the beef, go completely local” (Pollan, p. 765) are just a few ways Michael Pollan suggests to help the climate change. He says “plant a big garden, get off the beef, go completely local” because most of the food production companies play a major part in the CO2 increase in our air. In The Climate Crisis at the End of Our Fork, Anne Lappe says “Start thinking about another sector of the economy that is increasingly exacerbating the climate crisis. The global food system — including deforestation to make way for crops for cattle and cars — is responsible for an estimated one-third of total greenhouse gas emissions.” We’re unsettling the atmosphere and causing worldwide change just from the food we eat, or at least in how it’s produced. These companies clear land to build factories, taking away the trees that turn the CO2 into the oxygen we need. Pollan mentions that the

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