Climate Change, Society Issues and Sustainable Agriculture

Environmental chemistry is most relevant to study coronavirus pandemics

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Social chemistry

“…Third, despite all such scientific evidence, humans still use cars and planes that emit CO 2 ; they practice intensive, industrial agriculture that decrease soil carbon and in turn emits CO 2 ; they cut forest, which in turn emits CO 2 and so on. Recent essays report on global issues of and solution for society (Lichtfouse 2009a(Lichtfouse , b, 2010. From the scientist view, one might say ironically that 'human errors are repeatable'.…”

“…First, the global warming is a worldwide event due notably to worldwide CO 2 emissions (Lichtfouse 2009a), a fact that is nicely coined by the popular saying «pollutants have no borders». Second, the effects of global warming are now clearly proven by many scientific trends (Feehan et al 2009;Jones et al 2009;Lavalle et al 2009).…”

Unanswered issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic

“…The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has urged world nations to enforce rapid and sometimes very contradictory policies to limit the virus spread, with results ranging widely from total failure to moderate success. Besides the ironical defeat by such a small enemy, this clearly highlights the global disorganization of the society, which is mainly attempting to solve issues by treating the symptoms rather than the causes (Lichtfouse 2009 ) (Fig. 1 ).…”