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Carbon Footprint Follow up activity

Carbon Footprint Follow up activity

Q Based on answers to the Carbon Footprint activity, I think we need more practice exploring how purchasing clothes and eating meat contribute to climate change. It is not simply a matter of energy used for cooking or fuel used to drive to the store. Rather, the raw materials and processes involved in the production of clothing and animal products have a large carbon footprint. Read ALL THREE of these articles and submit a bullet point summary for each (they can all be part of the same document). Please do not cut and paste (plagiarize). You may also hand write and submit a photo of your notes. The assignment is worth 15 points (5 points for each summary). These are NOT part of the 5 current event summaries you are already responsible for. Link between clothing and climate changeLinks to an external site. Food choices and climate changeLinks to an external site. Climate friendly diet - Guardian articleLinks to an external site. PreviousNext

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It is very important to lead a healthy lifestyle and it solely depends on the food we eat during our day to day lives. Foods need to be grown and processed, transported, distributed and prepared. The largest food-related greenhouse gases comes from the agricultural and land use and this includes : methane from the cattle digestive’s process, nitrous oxides from fertilizers used for the crop productions and other agricultural emissions from manure management , rice cultivation and burning of crop residues. Greenhouse gases can leads to climate changes and it clearly affects the environment. Animals based foods such as red meat , dairy products causes highest greenhouse gas emissions.