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Where climate change will hit the US: Are you in danger?

May 31, 2012 by 1 Comment

In the first blog in our series on climate change and agriculture, we’re going to start our discussion on these issues by looking at North America, and how this continent will be affected. North America produces huge amounts of corn, soy, and fruit, and if temperatures continue to rise, and weather becomes more unpredictable, it could have a dangerous effect on the future of farming in The United States, Mexico, and Canada. Admittedly, some of these effects could be positive for some farmers. Crops that are limited by the growing season, like … [Read more...]

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Fake snow is just the beginning of our climate change problems

March 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Every one of us has heard stories about what will happen by 2025, 2050, or 2080 to the environment if climate change continues at its current pace, and the outcomes are devastating. More extreme and more frequent storms like tornadoes and floods, an increase in temperatures that makes farming more difficult and the heat more unbearable, so why isn’t climate change at the forefront of our politics? Governments have been making an effort to reduce the effects of climate change by adopting biofuels as another fuel source, but because of misinformation … [Read more...]

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Famine in the Horn of Africa caused by biofuels?

March 21, 2012 by 1 Comment

While African countries like Madagascar, Mail, and Senegal dedicate hundreds of thousands of hectares of land to biofuel production, countries in the horn of Africa are suffering from extreme famine as a result. Western countries like Italy, Germany, France, the United States, and Brazil all own multiple biofuel companies that operate in different parts of Africa. This means that all that land is being used to provide energy for western countries, and not to produce food crops that could be used to help those suffering from famine in the region. … [Read more...]

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Biofuels: a truly global challenge

March 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Biofuels, although largely produced and consumed by Western countries like the United States and Brazil, are not a Western problem. The impacts of rising food prices and land grabs are affecting farmers and people at risk for hunger all over the world. In this blog post, I want to focus on the impacts of biofuels in Asian countries, because as the market for biofuels is increasing thanks to quotas created by the US and the EU, farmers in Asia are jumping on the bandwagon to try to make some money. One country that has been negatively affected by … [Read more...]

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Federal Budget 2013: What it means for us

February 13, 2012 by 1 Comment

This morning, President Obama presented his proposal for the United States’ 2013 Budget. He proposed a $3.8 trillion budget request that attempts to move the United States forward by increasing taxes on the rich and increasing investments in infrastructure and education. But with this budget, the United States will expect to create a deficit of over 1.3 trillion, which is a $38 billion cut from last year. President Obama plans to further reduce the deficit to a little over 900 billion by the end of 2013. President Obama’s budget plan makes a clear … [Read more...]

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Biofuels are killing climate efforts

February 13, 2012 by 6 Comments

Biofuels were supposed to be the solution to global climate change. We could slowly reduce our dependence on crude oil by using fuels from corn or sugar cane instead. This fuel would be renewable, because we could just keep growing more! These plants would help to prevent more greenhouse gasses like carbon from entering the atmosphere because they would absorb carbon dioxide in the air as well as create a renewable fuel source when harvested. But scientists and environmentalists quickly learned that biofuels were not the perfect solution they had … [Read more...]

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