Monoculture

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported on December 8th, 2014, “60.6% [out of] 1,402 hate crimes . . . based on sexual orientation [are] classified as anti-gay (male) bias” (Latest Hate Crime Statistics Report Released). Crimes against homosexuals have been reported nationwide, but a hate crime in Laramie, Wyoming changed the gay community. On October 12, 1998, twenty-one-year old Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and murdered by two young Laramie citizens because of Shepard’s…

Multicultural Work Force in Construction Organisation – Issues of Health, Safety & Environment Abstract Multicultural manpower dominates rising construction Organisation in now days international business settings and consists of teams from totally different nationalities with various cultural orientations and values. The study examined however problems like different age, sex, religion, ethnicity, physical ability, race, sexual orientation of workers have an effect on health, safety and…

By using Ecomodernism and Deep Ecology perspectives I will analyze John Vidal's article "Are food and water driving a 21st-century African land grab", which discusses current agricultural practices in Ethiopia. Development scholars are divided about the potential benefits or drawbacks of large-scale, intensive agriculture (Vidal). Both sides agree that there is a need for reform to protect food supply, the approaches of ecomodernist and deep ecologists do not align with each other. Ecomodernism…

Thomas Robert Malthus, Adam Smith and Karl Marx each address the influence of production and prices on the human population and well-being. Specifically, in relation to food, they had different expectations of the markets and growth in response to the industrial revolution. Malthus focuses on a big picture notion of food versus people, and how the human population will fight through scarcity. Smith concentrates on prosperity and its relation to the human population and productivity. Marx,…

Ecosystem ecology and climate change: What are the costs and benefits of industrial vs. subsistence agriculture, organic farming, pesticide use? Summary of issue: For thousands of years, the biological science of agriculture has enabled the human race to germinate, and grow into the billions of citizens that we see today. This ever-growing population, however, has put a strain on the once predominant agricultural practice of subsistence and organic farming and facilitated the scientific…

of resources and pollution results from the disturbance of the assimilative capacity of the earth caused by the “uneven growth” whereby population and industries are concentrated in towns. Similarly, the concentration of resource extraction and monoculture (agriculture)in the rural or underdeveloped regions disturbs the assimilative capacity in these regions and depletes the soil reserves as well. In “combined development,” O’Connor identifies the economic and social forms that maximize returns…

Current farming practices are unsustainable, unethical and inefficient and limitations ought to be put in place. The methods used to obtain a large percentage of the food being consumed are environmentally detrimental and will result in long term, high costs such as irreversible damage to ecosystems, overdrawing natural resources, and harms to human health. Alternative methods exist but aren’t chosen because they’re not as cheap. Cheap food doesn’t account for true costs and as long as cheap…

The purpose of this paper is to address the changes in society caused by the progression of technology. Throughout the paper, I will be applying sociological theories — specifically conflict theory — and terms — such as culture, technology, social change, societies, and social networking — to a few news articles based on technology’s new role in society. The United States is a postindustrial society, which means it is a more technologically advanced society — compared to Industrial, Agrarian,…

If Phragmites find their way into an agricultural crop, it will cause economic loss (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, 2011). Property values will drop in areas where monocultures are found (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, 2011). Phragmites have already impacted the recreational value of the beaches in the Georgian Bay area (Crowe et al., 2011). Charismatic native species, such as the 6 freshwater turtle species in…

supplied. It is shown that diverse native varieties of crops offer higher total yields than technologically produced varieties. Thus, productivity for diversity has higher outputs for the entire system level than for one-dimensional, industrial monocultures (Wrizba, 2003). Food security requires that purchase prices reflect the full cost of production. Industrial agriculture relies on chemical, nonrenewable inputs rather than natural, continuously regenerated sources. It has increased food…