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Modern agriculture’s enormous environmental footprint

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July 23, 2011   8 Comments  

With the vast majority of the world's farms now relying on synthetic chemicals to grow crops and petroleum-derived fuels to drive the engines of production, modern agriculture has become overwhelmingly toxic to the atmosphere and is hastening global warming. Pictured: a crop duster in Tennessee. (Media credit/Roger Smith via Flickr)

Synthetic is bad

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EarthTalk: Green jobs? Effects of fertilizers?

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July 7, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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EarthTalk answers questions about green jobs and harmful effects of fertilizers and pesticides on nearby water.

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