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The environmental impact of typical coffee production is huge: extensive use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and the destruction of habitat for birds and other wildlife. Shade grown coffee, however requires little or no chemicals and provides winter habitat for our migratory bird populations.
The World Health Organization estimates that at least 200 000 people are killed as a direct use of pesticide poisoning worldwide, each year, and this is considered an underestimate.
750 kgs of pesticides are used on a conventional 18-hole golf course per year this surpasses the amount that would be used on farmland the same size by 700%.
(stats from Earth Day Trivia Quiz)