Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sustainable Rural living
- How Rural living can be unsustainable
- High car use:
- Rural areas often have little public transport links.
- As a result people use cars.
- More fossil fuels are used.
- More CO2 released.
- This adds to global warming.
- Different farming techniques:
- Some techniques use fossil fuels.
- Artificial fertilisers.
- Irrigation.
- Uses up the lands water resources.
- The environment can be damaged.
- How to make rural living sustainable
- Conserve resources:
- Using more public transport.
- Irrigation techniques that don't waste water.
- Drip irrigation.
- Water and fossil fuels.
- Protect the environment:
- Reduce the use of harmful products.
- Herbicides.
- Fertilisers.
- Pesticides.
- Maintaining hedgerows.
- Providing wildlife habitats.