Reduce, Reuse, it Cycles
We harm this cycle the most when we burn fossil fuels and clear forests faster than they can grow back
What is the carbon cycle?
This is when all or most of the people in the country have daily access to enough nutritious food to live active, healthy lives.
What is food security?
Consuming this animal has the largest environmental impact than any other.
What is a cow?
This is what GMO stands for.
What is a genetically-modified organism?
What is soil salinization?
Bacteria in the soil and water are key members of this cycle.
What is the Nitrogen cycle?
This half of the population is most negatively affected by water scarcity in their community.
Who are young women?
This is the danger of over-using antibiotics in meat production.
What is creating drug-resistant strains of microbes, like viruses and bacteria?
What is building genetic resistance for microorganisms, like viruses and bacteria?
This is a problem our industrial farmers have been battling since the Dust Bowl.
What is top soil erosion?
Nitrous Oxide, with about 300 times the warming capacity of CO2, is released into the air in huge quantities by manufacturing this.
What is inorganic fertilizer?
This is the slowest cycle, because its components aren't found in the atmosphere, but rather in ocean sediments, rocks, and bones.
What is the phosphorus cycle?
This thyroid enlargement is caused by poor diet and a lack of iodine.
What is a goiter?
This is an environmental advantage of modern animal feedlots.
What is less land use?
What is less destruction of local biodiversity?
Animal manure, green manure, and compost are all considered this.
What is organic fertilizer?
This is causing algae blooms and Oxygen-depleted water all over the coastal United States.
What is agricultural runoff from inorganic fertilizers?
This cycle is the most greatly impacted by mining, refining, and processing Earth's resources, like metals.
What is the sulfur cycle?
Heart disease, stroke, Type II Diabetes, and some forms of cancer are linked closely to this problem plaguing the United States.
What is over nutrition?
This is the main gas released by animal burps, farts, and waste.
What is Methane? CH4?
This is a type of agriculture where many types of crops with different nutritional needs are grown in the same area to maintain soil fertility.
What is organic polyculture?
This occurs when the productive potential of topsoil falls by 10% or more because of drought and human activities.
What is desertification?
Agricultural runoff of animal waste and inorganic fertilizers affects these three nutrient cycles the most.
What are the water cycle, nitrogen cycle, and phosphorus cycle?
These are the two key nutrients that people who suffer from chronic malnutrition lack which hinders the normal physical and mental development of children, weakening them, and making them more vulnerable to disease.
What are lipids and protein?
This is the Earth's resource MOST affected by human meat consumption.
What is water?
What is the Amazon rainforest? If you thought of the question as "most threatened"
This is one way the federal government can make the price of crops (or other goods and services) artificially low where the price does not often reflect the environmental impact of the good.
What are government subsidies or federal tax breaks?
What are hunger, poverty, poor health, and lack of education?