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• Title: Agriculture's Role in Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Perspectives)
• Author : Issues in Science and Technology
• Release Date : January 22, 2011
• Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 166 KB

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Agriculture is responsible for 7% of total emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere in the. Although agriculture is not the major source of greenhouse gas emissions--that title belongs to industrial plants that burn fossil fuel--it is nevertheless an important one and deserves increased attention. The good news is that useful remedies are at hand. Using various best management practices in a number of agricultural operations can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly a third. The federal government therefore should include in its next farm bill, scheduled to be debated in 2012, incentives to promote the use of these practices. The potential rewards are considerable. Cutting emissions of greenhouse gases by whatever means will help to minimize the risk of climate change. Cutting emissions from agricultural sources also will help to improve air and water quality in a number of important ways. For example, some of the practices will help reduce the runoff of nitrogen and phosphorus compounds that can contribute to the eutrophication of aquatic systems and subsequent harm to aquatic organisms. In an extreme case, large quantities of these compounds carried by rivers throughout the middle of the country have found their way into the Gulf of Mexico and created seasonal "dead zones" where commercial fish, oysters, and other organisms experience increased mortality.

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