Brice Gill
Group 4 Research Report
Topic: 鈥淗ow does flooding affect the nitrogen levels in the surrounding soil, in Florida?鈥?br>
Seasonal flooding, which can occur due to natural disasters such as tropical storms, can cause overflow of main river resources and its tributaries, and thereby flood a variety of crops, including but not limited to corn, wheat, rye, beans, etc.
Since other states and countries are dependent on these crops, when they become unavailable, these consumers look to other sources of regional harvests to meet their customers that they will sell their food products at a discount during the following harvest season, thereby cutting into their profits.
Therefore, natural disasters can have devastating effects on local and regional economic that are dependent on crops for subsistence farming. The farmer must hope that they can recover in the following harvest season and re-coup their cash crops for sale and re-gain the confidence of their buyers/ consumers. Thus, there is a delicate reliance on farmers and existing natural weather systems.
Additionally, in the aftermath of floods, the marginal labor product thereby falls. This is because of the fact that the quality of the land, including the plants and animals that have diminished because of the flood waters therein, has deteriorated. As a result of the flood, the wages paid towards the farmers鈥?labor will increase because the government will henceforth have to compensate for the farmers鈥?lack of productivity.
Furthermore, this lack of productivity stems from the tremendous increase in nitrogen levels in soil surrounding flood areas, which causes the growth of blue-green agene (thereby consuming oxygen levels in the soil and killing of the plants that thrive from the soil) and the exponential growth of bacteria (thereby spreading diseases such as malaria and ameba infection). Therefore, the citizens themselves will suffer because they will have to pay the government in the form of taxes in order to compensate for this loss of productivity coined by the proliferation of intense nitrogen levels stemming from flood waters.
Moreover, flooding causes food to diminish from excessive hydration, thereby hurting the economy and upending the amount of crops available for sale. In addition, flooding causes monumental damage upon the housing market because it inundates and upends buildings from their concrete foundations, thereby causing people to go homeless and to lose their workplaces. The economy therefore plummets because people will, therefore, be unable to obtain income, will utilize and invalidate their home insurance to pay for the damage and will have to pay taxes to tax collectors in order to aid in the reconstruction of all of the aforementioned damage (including the bolstering of emergency vehicles). The foresaid could possibly lead to a million-dollar loss in state capital.
The plague of disease coined by the flooding can create chaos in hospitals, for there would be a minute doctor-to-patient ratio. Additionally, transport networks could be disjointed by the floodwaters obliteration of highways, bridges, ports, airports and railroads, thereby disturbing trade networks. Additionally, the value of the dollar could decrease because of the people that would take their stocks and money out of banks in order to obtain money to compensate for their loss of income, decline in home insurance and increase in tax spending. f
Consumers will also be hit by this economic downfall because of the fact that taxes will also increase on products in order to uphold the government鈥檚 need to ensure itself for the sake of future flooding. In the case of future destruction, the government will always need money to boost its potential to work on reconstruction projects in the future. The government will need to increase the taxes by a small fraction of the increase in taxes need to uphold the various types of reconstruction needed to mend the flooding.
On the other hand, one way in which flooding will actually boost the economy is that all medical, construction, repair and cooperate business unions will benefit from the flooding. Ambulances and hospitals will, in essence, gain profit from the flooding because of the demand for medical emergence assistance. Cooperate businesses and other cooperation unions will need to rely on each other for economic metal transactions designed to engage the reconstruction and relative economic gain simultaneously.
Another serious concern is when disasters caused from flooding and resultant nitrogen pollution are combined with the 鈥渘aturally鈥?decreasing amounts of consumable agricultural crops produced. This is because large amounts of corn and sugar cane are being converted for use in alcohol biofuels. Already the world is suffering from the shortages of corn, and this will only become worsen as the results of nitrogen pollution compound the problem.
The shortage of agricultural pro Flooding can cause a lot of devastating events. It may kill crops and destroy homes in all places. Florida is one place that frequently experiences flooding |
