Huzzah for industrial agriculture!
Inefficient farming practices are helping to drive deforestation, pollution, ocean degradation, and species loss and
constitute the most serious environmental threat in the world today, according to a new book, "World Agriculture and the Environment, a global survey" by Dr. Jason Clay, head of the Center for Conservation Innovation at World Wildlife Fund.

Among the findings in Clay's book: Agriculture wastes 60 percent, or 1,500 trillion liters, of the 2.5 trillion liters of water that it uses each year. Water resources are already being used close to or beyond their limit, particularly in the Americas, North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, China, and India. The impacts of global warming are likely to further disrupt water supplies.

We at the CHL feel very strongly that water is where it's at. We expect that lack of clean water is going to further our goal of biodiversity reduction at a faster rate than any of our other programs. So, dear farmers, keep watering those huge monocultures you are growing in the deserts and don't bother to fix those leaky irrigation pipes. You're doing us all proud!
- Owen, 10:35 AM | |