Environmental Issue Leading to "Island Civilization"

The agriculture industry covers everything from crops to livestock.  Farming in regard to livestock is an environmental issue in several areas; making it a good reason to propose “Island Civilization.”  Along with this business comes a need for massive amounts of land and animals to exploit.  This aspect of the livestock sector has caused severe anthropogenic land degradation.  The agriculture industry calls for 30% of all inhabitable land.  Out of that 30, 70% of that land is used directly for the livestock sector.  Most of that land, which is arable, is used for grazing.  Grazing, feedcrops, and pastures are great factors in deforestation.  Because these animals need places to eat, sleep, and elope, there is cause for destruction of the already existing and inhabited forests.  When these forests are destroyed, along with the trees and other accommodations of nature go the habitat for, and the animals themselves.  This act of deforestation caused by the livestock sector brings about a deficit in that area’s, therefore the world’s biodiversity.  Biodiversity in an area shows how stable as well as creates stability for an area.  Another area the livestock sector helps devastate is the atmosphere.  About 18% of greenhouse gas emissions come from the livestock sector.  This percentage is even greater than that of the transport industry.  Along with the atmosphere our freshwater sources are affected by the livestock sector.  From this sector comes erosion and more detrimental, pollution.  The pollution and runoff comes from the waste of the farm animals.  There are ways the livestock industry could function efficiently and less detrimental to the environment.  That being said had humans lived with being content and let nature have its way, the land would be fairly distributed among species that were most suitable for the land.  We would have the fair chance to hunt as the animal predators don’t now; and the farm animals would have the fair chance to survive and not face certain death being livestock.  Other natural accommodations regarding to the water and atmosphere would have fallen into place as well.

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