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    Rebekah Taviss presented on the unsustainable environmental impacts of animal agriculture. Global population is projected to increase to 9 billion by 2050, putting more strain on land, water and air resources. Animal agriculture uses vast amounts of land and water, and is responsible for 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions, including methane which has a much greater global warming potential than CO2. Engineers and consumers both have a role to play in addressing these impacts through developing more sustainable solutions and choosing a more plant-based diet which uses fewer resources.

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    An explanation of how detrimental animal agriculture truly is. Today we hear about carbon footprints and recycling, but what we put on our plates is what makes the biggest impact.

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    Rebekah Taviss presented on the unsustainable environmental impacts of animal agriculture. Global population is projected to increase to 9 billion by 2050, putting more strain on land, water and air resources. Animal agriculture uses vast amounts of land and water, and is responsible for 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions, including methane which has a much greater global warming potential than CO2. Engineers and consumers both have a role to play in addressing these impacts through developing more sustainable solutions and choosing a more plant-based diet which uses fewer resources.

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    Animal Agriculture Presentation

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    Rebekah Taviss presented on the unsustainable environmental impacts of animal agriculture. Global population is projected to increase to 9 billion by 2050, putting more strain on land, water and air resources. Animal agriculture uses vast amounts of land and water, and is responsible for 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions, including methane which has a much greater global warming potential than CO2. Engineers and consumers both have a role to play in addressing these impacts through developing more sustainable solutions and choosing a more plant-based diet which uses fewer resources.

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    Animal Agriculture

    An Unsustainable Future

    3 Reasons Livestock Damages the Environment. 2012. http://vegonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/livestock-factory-farming.jpg

    Presentation by Rebekah Taviss

    What should we focus on?

    Population
    Land
    Water
    Air
    How can we (engineers) help?
    How can we (consumers) help?

    (Over) Population
    1812 1 billion
    1912 1.5 billion
    2012 7 billion
    Today 7.3 billion
    2050 9 billion
    Caburian, W. The More, the Merrier? The WP Wire. 2015. http://thewpwire.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/overpopulation.jpg

    Land

    Henner, M. Factory Farming is Destroying the American Landscape. Inhabitat. 2014. http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2013/08/MishakHenner-Feedlot-Photography-6.jpg

    Water
    Fresh water 2.5% of all water on
    Earth

    Calgary Korean Baptist Church. Water. 2013. http://calgarykb.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/water08.jpg

    Our water fixes arent


    fixing anything
    Consumption of the average
    American:
    206 pounds of meat/year
    46 pounds of pig
    58 pounds of cow
    102 pounds of chicken & turkey

    248 eggs
    616 pounds of dairy
    Equivalent to 405,000 gallons of water.

    Air
    Animal agriculture is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas
    emissions
    Livestock and their by products are responsible for 51% of all
    worldwide emissions

    tles to Reduce Global Warming Caused by Cattle. Liberty Voice. 2013. http://guardianlv.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Cattle-Global-Warming-Methane-Emissions-650x459.jpg

    CO2 is the least of our


    concerns
    Methane
    25-100 times more destructive on a 20
    year time frame
    Global warming potential 86 times that of
    CO2

    Nitrous Oxide
    65% of all human-related emissions
    come from livestock
    296 times the global warming potential
    of CO2

    What can the engineer do?

    & Yale Wolf. Nothing, Nevada. Unurth Street Art. http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/633/138239/over-under_yale-wolf_nothing_2_u_1000.jpg

    We have a choice to make


    Land required to feed one person for a year:
    Animal-based diet (meat-eater) 3 acres
    Vegetarian diet an acre
    Plant-based diet (vegan) 1/6 th of an acre

    Following a plant-based diet we would:


    Use 1/11th of oil, 1/13th of water, and produce
    50% less CO2
    Save 1,100 gallons of water, 45 pounds of grain,
    30 ft2 of forested land, 20 pounds of CO 2 and one
    animals life everyday

    We are consumers

    P. Free Your Mind. 2012. https://hateandanger.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/modern-slave-fear-conform-consume-tv-media.jpg

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