Review: Cows With Gas: India's Global Warming Problem
India, which has the most number of cows, is greatly contributing to the global warming problem that the world is facing. With a growing economy, the expected demand for diary products will surge, as nominal income will increase. However due to the economic downturn in 2008, quantity of cows reared may drop as people now with lesser disposable incomes would decide to reduce their demand. As a result, this will reduce the amount of methane emission from the cows.
Researchers and scientists are finding ways to develop cheaper and more effective products to reduce the methane emission from livestock. One of their products is the urea-molasses-mineral blocks which are cheap, reduce methane emission by 20%, and also provide more nutrition so they're easier to sell to illiterate farmers who don't know a thing about global warming but want higher milk yields. However, how well-received the product is to the farmers is another issue. This problem of huge methane emission from India livestock has been surfaced for quite a long period of time and yet the problem has not improved. Likewise, the low literacy rate in India has not improved significantly over the centuries. This shows the likeliness of the effectiveness of spreading new products to the farmers.
Research has shown that livestock-rearing generates more greenhouse gases than transportation according to a new report from the United Nations (U.N.), which adds that improved production methods could go a long way towards cutting emissions of gases responsible for global warming. The fact that farmers will not reduce their number of livestock unless an epidemic strikes, I feel that the government should step in further to give free supplies of products for a period of time to allow the farmers to experience better yields and thus, in the future they are more open to purchase new products. Of course, only if the product costs lower or equal to their usual expenses on livestocks’ food, as they may find it unnecessary and hesitant to switch the usual feed for their livestock.
sometimes, rearing livestock is their livelihood. so they cannot just stop rearing or reducing the amount of livestock. by giving free product to reduce methane emission does not necessary means that the farmer will buy it in future. as they are not educated, they do not understand the disastrous effect of global warming. if government should step in, the better solution will be the grant subsidies to firms producing this product so that firms can sell them cheaper and force the citizens to buy this product and not to allow them to choose and wait as global warming is an issue that should be handled with top priority.
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ReplyDeleteWhat i feel about the statement' quantity of cows reared will drop as people now with lesser disposable incomes would decide to reduce their demand'is that the cows are their only source of capital, they cant possibly kill their cows and sell it as beef, as it will stop their future source of income. Thus i believe that the income they earn from milk products will decrease but the quantity of cows will remain relatively the same.
For the 2nd paragraph, i think that the facts is a little unclear, i do agree that 'illiterate farmers who don't know a thing about global warming but want higher milk yields', thus 'shows the likeliness of the effectiveness of spreading new products to the farmers'. However you added points on methane emission has surfaced for a long period of time and low literacy rate has not improved significantly does not really link up to your concluding sentence of your paragraph.
Although i feel that its a good approach for the government to step in to help, i believe we also have to state the limitations of what developing countries such as India can do.Thus problems do not only come from the farmers.
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