Topics:
- Erosion is when soil becomes dirt.
- 1930s the united states experienced the dust bull when farmers left soils exposed and 200
acres of crop land was damaged
- President roosavelt created the soil conservation service where it was made of the us
agriculture service.
- Carbon runs the system in our world and also people don’t know where they even come
from.
- Carbon dioxide is when we breathe it out and plants breathe it in. We make them when
we burn fossil fuels.
- When we eat vegetarian food or vegetables we intake carbon.
- In plants the 40 percent of carbon is sent in the roots of plants where soil contains an
entire universe of life.
- Soil has more organisms than those that lived on planet earth.
- Like us we are 99 percent microbes and 1% human
- When you eat food bacteria consumes those instead of you consuming it.
- When we have soil and use chemical agriculture will have a negative impact on the
microbes and kill those when we actually need them.
- For example farmers use nitrogen which created the most food production that the world
had ever seen and so it takes more nitrogen to raise a handful of grain then it did in the
1900s.
- Some chemicals are now even causing cancer in which every year 3 pounds of toxins
are sprayed which is why it causes people to die.
- Over 200 studies do show how these toxins show its impact onto certain groups of
people.
- We have lost 1 third of earth's top soil and when we destroy soil it releases carbon
dioxide leading to dust build up.
- Desertification
- Soil and planet are connected and if plants are healthy more evaporation occurs. Also,
60% percent of rainfall comes from the ocean and 40 % comes from inland. If soil is dry
it takes away rain as wind moves.
- About ⅔ of the world is desercifying and every year millions of people are displaced and
by 2050 more than one billion people are gonna be displaced and forced to move.
- Within 60 years the world's topsoil will be gone by then.
- Plants work with microorganisms but soil can hold tons of soil.
- Regeneration is when we repair the damage done and make things better.
- If you plant trees you can help mother earth to get better again
- We can reverse climate change by regenerating where it helps our agriculture system.
- We get greenhouse gases from feedlocks because the animals roam
- Food and garbage is collected to make soil for farmers and recreate organic food that is
feeding all people
Social dilemma:
- Companies use social media to understand a big model of you to understand
what videos you like and see which ones interest you to see so that they can gain
more views and understand what your whole life is like.
- When you look at magicians they can better understand people’s minds and it
works.
- Google and facebooks do little experiments on users and people will develop an
optimal way of telling people do to certain things.
- In the midterm elections we can effect the behavior and emotions without
triggering the users ever finding out.
- Older teen girls age 15-19 who have 70 percent to commit suicide and preteen
has 151% age 10-14 who commit suicide.
- Social media changes the behavior of teenage girls who when they come from
school are always on their phone.
- They mentioned that facebook is able to troll elections and cause people to
believe in face theories and cause fights to influence their believes and make
sure that they are bringing others into our side and if they don’t then they would
like to bring violent clashes with each other.
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