Food travels thousands of miles from farms to consumers. some people believe we should buy food from local farmer to protect the environment and support local businesses. do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

The trend graph and pie chart show the rates at which both plants and animals are becoming extinct as well as detailing the sources of threats to

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life. Overall, we can see that extinction rates are increasing. It is

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clear that human impact is responsible for far more harm to

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life than natural events are. There are only two natural factors listed as threatening

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life, natural disasters and other natural events. Both of these account for roughly 10%

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of the total threat.

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, 81.3%

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of the harmful activities are human ones. The worst of these are harvesting and agriculture, which together comprise just over 33% of the total impact.

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and animal extinction rates are, as mentioned earlier, increasing, and are projected to continue doing so long into the future. It is thought that

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sharp increase will have declined significantly by the end of

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century (to under 30,000 extinctions per

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species), having reached its peak around 2060, at 50,000 extinctions per million species