Climate Change and The Risk of Losing Earth How would you feel if you were living in a highly toxic atmosphere filled with chemicals that can affect your health negatively and cause harm to our planet? Other than industrial factories, livestock production can take on many of these forms. Although it may be beneficial to human health and the number one food source in the world, it has a negative effect on our climate and our resources we use to survive. It also negatively affects human health and consumes most of our water resources. Producing livestock is the main cause of the increase of earth's temperatures. If we continue to raise cattle, like the way we are now, then our climate will eventually become a place we can no longer live in. When raising cattle, they produce a gas known as Methane . Methane is a gas composed of carbon and hydrogen. It provides great benefits to our environment by producing more heat and light energy. Many people don't know that Methane is ac...