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Comment 35 for Design Comments for the GHG Scoping Plan (sp-design-ws) - 1st Workshop.


First Name: Lilian
Last Name: Lee
Email Address: lilian2004@gmail.com
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Subject: add livestock sector to the greenhouse gas sources
Comment:
I was excited for your fast response on the hot issue of global
warming, and encouraged by your efforts. 

I would suggest adding a livestock sector as one of the greenhouse
gas sources.  According to Senior UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) official Henning Steinfeld,  “Livestock are one
of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious
environmental problems …”, and “Urgent action is required to
remedy the situation.”  The reasons include:

1. “ …the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions
as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent – than transport. It is
also a major source of land and water degradation.”

2. “It generates 65 percent of human-related nitrous oxide, which
has 296 times the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of CO2. Most of
this comes from manure.   And it accounts for respectively 37
percent of all human-induced methane (23 times as warming as CO2),
which is largely produced by the digestive system of ruminants, and
64 percent of ammonia, which contributes significantly to acid
rain.”

3. “Livestock now use 30 percent of the earth’s entire land
surface, mostly permanent pasture but also including 33 percent of
the global arable land used to producing feed for livestock, the
report notes. As forests are cleared to create new pastures, it is
a major driver of deforestation, especially in Latin America where,
for example, some 70 percent of former forests in the Amazon have
been turned over to grazing.” 

4. “The livestock business is among the most damaging sectors to
the earth’s increasingly scarce water resources, contributing
among other things to water pollution, euthropication and the
degeneration of coral reefs. The major polluting agents are animal
wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries,
fertilizers and the pesticides used to spray feed crops.
Widespread overgrazing disturbs water cycles, reducing
replenishment of above and below ground water resources.
Significant amounts of water are withdrawn for the production of
feed.”

For more detail information about livestock, please click the
below link: www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448.

Livestock sector is a major greenhouse gas source.  Please do not
ignore it.   Thanks for your attention.

Lilian

Attachment: www.arb.ca.gov/lists/sp-design-ws/38-toarb-072908.doc

Original File Name: toARB-072908.doc

Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-07-29 22:08:22



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