Plants will exhibit lack of vigor, slow growth and will be weak and stunted. Quality and yield will be significantly reduced. Older leaves become yellow (chlorotic) from lack of chlorophyll. Deficient plants will exhibit uniform light green to yellow on older leaves, these leaves may die and drop.
China, India, US Among Worldâs Worst Marine Polluters: Country-By-Country Breakdown Of Plastics In Oceans. China is dumping more plastics into the ocean than any other country and the rate of global plastic pollution is only expected to increase, according to a new study by engineers and environmental scientists.
Lack of sustainable agriculture: Biggest threat to the environment. Agriculture, the largest industry in the world, is also the biggest threat to the environment. Inefficient food production and harmful agriculture subsidies are causing deforestation, water shortages and pollution. Agriculture wastes 60% or 1,500 trillion litres, of the 2,500 trillion litres of water it uses each year-this is 70% of the worldâs accessible water 1. Many big food producing countries like the US, China, India, Pakistan, Australia and Spain have reached, or are close to reaching, their renewable water resource limits.