生产如此数量的粮食可能大大提高环境中二氧化碳和氮的水平,引起很多物种的灭绝。
Producing that amount of food could significantly increase levels of carbon dioxide and nitrogen in the environment and cause the extinction of numerous species.
其它气体,如甲烷、一氧化二氮等,尽管没有像二氧化碳那样严重的影响气候,但他们依然在加剧全球变暖。
Many other gases, such as methane and nitrous oxide, contribute to warming, although not as much as carbon dioxide.
食物生产的高碳排放来自于畜牧业以及大量使用的化肥,其中有些分解成一氧化二氮,而一氧化二氮对全球变暖的危害性比二氧化碳的要高出数百倍。
The high emissions come from livestock farming and from the heavy use of fertilisers, some of which break down into nitrous oxide, a global warming gas hundreds of times more powerful than CO2.
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