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It is also worth noting that agriculture itself (especially in the developing world) is a major contributing factor to climate change. Governments in these countries are either unable or unwilling to protect their natural resources, huge patches of rainforest and jungle are being destroyed to make room for more farm land and/or harvested as timber.

So we are losing huge forests (which help to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by simply existing) at an unprecedented rate and we are producing more emissions by developing this land for agricultural use.