Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Luxembourg and planetary boundaries
Luxembourg does not have a large agriculture. Agriculture only employs 1% of the population of the workforce, and makes up .3% of the GDP (Official Portal of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) However, Luxembourg has a heavy use of fertilizers,being nine out of the top ten nations to use fertilizer nutrients on arable and permeant crop land(FAOSTAT). This excessive use of fertilizer can be detrimental to the water supply in Luxembourg. This is because the excess nutrients can disturb the natural processes in the aquatic biomes and contaminate drinking water. Since Luxembourg is such a small nation, it has few natural resources and the pollution and destruction of its few resources can be highly detrimental.
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Good example and use of statistics.
ReplyDeleteInteresting! Cool how you connected the fertilizer to issues with water.
ReplyDeleteI really like how you talked about the size of the country and how this limits resources even more.
ReplyDeleteNice work! Your explanations and use of stats really backed up your argument !
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