April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 41m
English
With increasing affluence, China’s per capita consumption of meat, milk, and eggs increased fourfold, fourfold, and eightfold, respectively, between 1978 and 2002; its egg consumption now equals that of rich nations. This means more agricultural wastes, animal droppings, fish droppings, fish food, and fertilizer for aquaculture, tending to increase terrestrial and aquatic pollution.
—Professors Jianguo Liu and Jared Diamond
As the world’s largest fertilizer user, China consumes more than 50 million metric tons annually. Due to peasant ignorance, the problem with this fertilizer use is widespread overuse. This reduces fertilizer efficiency and therefore requires ever larger applications to achieve a given ...
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