Deforestation, Livestock, and Climate Change
by nick ironside
1. Deforestation
1.1. Replaces Oxygen with CO2 into the atmosphere
1.2. Peat can store 10x as much carbon as a regular forest can
1.3. After a forest is burnt down, it can smolder for years, meaning it still produces smoke into the air
2. Amazon Rainforest
2.1. Burning down the rainforest would kill millions of species
2.2. 95% of the rainforest hasn't been researched for medicines
2.3. The rainforest creats 20% of the Earths oxygen
2.4. Burning down the rainforest would raise the global temperature 4°C
3. Livestock
3.1. On the Earth, 29% of the surface is land, 71% of than land is habitable, 50% of that habitable land is used to grow crops and raise livestock.
3.2. 30% of all greenhouse gases Come from cow manure
3.3. A lot of deforestation happens because they want to make More room for livestock And crops for the livestock To eat