Agriculture and a Sick Climate
Environmentalist Dr. Angelina Galang talks about the effects of climate change to agriculture and suggests ways on how to mitigate the problem
The heat rages, the floods intensify, winters become more severe and tsunamis and strong earthquakes are damaging properties and lives in practically all corners of the world. What’s happening here? Nature is finally unleashing its wrath and world leaders are getting more alarmed.
Scientists say the causes of our sick climate are both natural and man-made. The natural causes of climate change are continental drift, volcanoes, the earth’s tilt, and ocean currents. On the other hand, our changes and wrong practices in land use pattern, deforestation, land clearing, agriculture and other activities like the dumping of tons of millions of garbage and smoke belching have led to a rise in the emission of carbon dioxide, contributing to the so called changes in greenhouse gas concentration.
