CO2 'significantly reduces'
nutrients in major food crops
Thursday 8 April 2014
The nutrient content of major
crops like wheat is likely to be reduced by rising temperatures. Rising levels of CO2 around
the world will significantly impact the nutrient content of crops according to
a new study. Researchers have struggled over the past two decades to design
large scale field trials to accurately model the impacts of increased CO2
levels on the nutritional makeup of crops and eating more
food to make up for these reductions in nutrients would not be a good solution.
According
to ‘ Increasing the level of CO2 decrease the nutrient `, it can cause the global
biggest problems about how every cultures in this world can live with less
nutrient. I have to eat all of the products from crops and I think other people
are in the same way as me because if the nutrient in crops are decreased so our
body systems must have some effects which want to gain more foods and do you
think the products that our body want more are enough for every people in our
world?
In
these days, the increasing the level of CO2 doesn’t affect not only the survival
of environment but also the living of everyone so you shouldn’t think that this
is not your problem. We found significant
reductions in iron, zinc and protein in rice and wheat, and we found
significant reductions in iron and zinc in soybeans and field peas as well.
So if you eat some foods in normal amount as you have in everyday you might not get enough mineral to
repair your body.
I
have already talked about what happen when this research was happened and we
haven’t done anything to solve this situation. So I think this news can give
many readers some information which is useful and someone mightn’t know about
this before. I want to say that their recent summary on the impacts of global
warming stated that the production of maize, wheat and rice will go down over
the course of this century.
Finally,
you have to interest in world’s situation which affect all of our routines. If
you don’t care to decrease the level of CO2 from your activities in every ways,
what our world is going on. There will be more bad events or dangerous
disasters and then we couldn’t have the perfect quality of lifes as we had in
the previous time.
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ReplyDeleteSo what do you think we should do?
What should governments do?
(I liked your use of modals in your post, so I was prompted to add a couple more in this comment.)
Firstly, the government should spread this news to more citizens in our country and make them be aware of the situation which will happen in the future if we don't care about releasing CO2 from any activities or the factories. Moreover, the solution of this problem must be promoted seriously such as less use of car or any machines that release CO2 too much in the atmosphere and that is an example way for decreasing CO2 in our routine.
ReplyDeleteSo, should governments ban private cars for the public good of all and force everyone to use public transportation?
DeleteI think government should not ban private car. But I think government should improve the quality of public transportation instead. If the public transportation is good, people will use it more. Many countries that have good public transportation have lower private car usage, such as Japan.
DeleteIt sounds interesting, I actually think that global warming is quite a big problem because It totally impacts everyone's lives as you said, we all should be involved in reducing CO2. It leads to many problem such as lower quality of rice and wheat, and hot weather. It will be irrational if you want enough nutrient, you have to eat more, so you will get bigger. Consequently, we all should care and help decreasing it as soon as possible.
ReplyDeleteYou have an interesting idea. Global warming is one of the biggest problems in the world today. I think there are many ways to reduce Carbon Dioxide, for example, turn off lights when you leave the room.
ReplyDeleteAt first, I wonder how crop was significantly reduce the nutrients. Because plants love CO2. They collect CO2 from the air and store it in a form of starch, the main source of our carbohydrate, in order to survive.
ReplyDeleteAnd then I realized, the nutrient may be not reduced in quantity, but in percentage. Because of more CO2, plants get more starch to store, so the percentage of nutrients is reduced. So we have to eat more food, it means more calories, in order to get sufficient amount of nutrients.
Your article reminds me about Carbon Credit. I’m not sure that I remember concept of carbon credit correctly or not. It likes participating countries in Kyoto Protocol. They can trade their carbon credit and manage their carbon credit as agreement. For example in developed countries, there are high chances that they will emit the CO2 more than limitation of their credit so they consequently buy carbon credit from other countries, in particular developing countries in which the carbon credit of CO2 emission usually don’t reach the target. By this strategy, the developing countries also gain the subsidy from the developed country in order to develop their countries substantially and it also means that the developed countries take their responsibility what they have done. Actually, the concept of carbon credit is not only country level but it’s also company or organization level. For example if you use the energy created by using solar cell in your business, it means that you get the carbon credit too and I think that you can sell it.
ReplyDeleteI think carbon credit concept is really appealing.