Essays on Overgrazing

The eco-festival 2016 held at Kingsborough Community College on May 12 was one of my best experiences in college. In attending the festival, I was able to gain deeper insight on eco-justice and all the activities that pertain to the impact of animal agriculture on the planet and our health. This essay is a reaction paper on one of the events during the festival that I attended which focused on the impact of animal agriculture on health. The event which was held at MAC Lighthouse was moderated by experts and scholars from the college who focused on how animal ...

In the Tragedy of Commons (TOC), students or individuals are expected to act independently and rationally. In most incidences they end up acting to satisfy their personal interest despite their knowledge that they may affect the long-term interest of the society. Actually, the participants in the pieces game have a tendency to deplete the common resource from the pool of resources. The paper will provide insight to the morals, ethical expectations, fairness, engineering canons and sustainability, and advice the future players of the Pisces game. I think that the problem of open access resources ensures that there is a ...

Practices that expose soil to erosion and how they can be corrected

Introduction

Soil erosion is a very big problem to human beings because it has detrimental effects on the life of human beings. There are many causes of soil erosion; some are natural causes while some are induced by the activities of human beings on the earth’s surface. Examples of human practices that result in soil erosion are overgrazing, over-cultivation and deforestation.

Over-cultivation

Over-cultivation is the excessive use of land for growing agricultural products. Excessive use of land makes the soil surface lose hence; soil can be easily eroded through wind or water erosion. This is common in raised areas where ...