The Other Inconvenient Truth

After you watch the video - TEDTalks Jonathan Foley - The Other Inconvenient Truth you will give a short summary of the main points/message of the video. and you will post 3 current environmental issues discussed by Foley. List specific issues, not a general statement. Create a title for your posting that accurately describes the content of the posting. Your initial post is due by Thursday January 15 at 11:59PM.

Provide feedback to at least two posts made by other members of this course. The following rubric is associated with this discussion activity. Replies are due by Sunday January 18 at 11:59PM.

The video The Other Inconvenient Truth opened my eyes to how the world is changing and we don’t realize it. To me the issue of global climate change was not as bad as it really is. I have now learned the impact that is more real than I ever thought. While enormous technical, policy, and economic issues remain to be solved, there is now widespread acceptance of the need to confront the twin challenges of energy security and climate change. Collectively, we are beginning to acknowledge that our long addiction to fossil fuels — which has been harming our national security, our economy and our environment for decades — must end. The question today is no longer why, but how. The die is cast, and our relationship to energy will never be the same. Meeting these huge new agricultural demands will be one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. If this wasn’t enough, we must also address the massive environmental impacts of our current agricultural practices, which new evidence indicates rival the impacts of climate change. The current issues of Freshwater decline, greenhouse gas emissions and the pollution from agriculture, particularly the use of industrial fertilizers and other chemicals has fundamentally upset the chemistry of the entire planet.