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Reach ‘peak meat’ by 2030 to tackle climate crisis, say scientists: Reducing meat and dairy consumption will cut methane and allow forests to thrive
UK Guardian ^ | December 12, 2019 | Damian Carrington

Posted on 12/12/2019 9:00:03 AM PST by C19fan

Livestock production needs to reach its peak within the next decade in order to tackle the climate emergency, scientists have warned.

They are calling for governments in all but the poorest countries to set a date for “peak meat” because animal agriculture is a significant and fast-growing source of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Cattle and sheep emit large amounts of methane while forests are destroyed to create pasture and grow the grains that are fed to intensively reared animals.

The world’s scientists agree that huge amounts of carbon dioxide will have to be removed from the atmosphere to limit global heating to 1.5C. More than 80% of farmland is used for livestock but it produces just 18% of food calories.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


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To: glorgau

Ha!


21 posted on 12/12/2019 9:14:46 AM PST by V V Camp Enari 67-68 (Viet Vet)
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To: C19fan

Tackling scientists might teach them to shut the hell up with their bullcrap panic mongering.

We could make it a sport. Award points for style and degree of impact in the tackle.


22 posted on 12/12/2019 9:15:08 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: C19fan
The Evolution of Climate BS

Global Warming

Climate Change

Climate Crisis

And now...Climate Emergency

23 posted on 12/12/2019 9:15:09 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: glorgau

No more pudding either then.

How can you have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat?


24 posted on 12/12/2019 9:15:23 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: C19fan

If students had been allowed to study history, they might think that their leaders are pushing them to accept the same working, dietary, and political conditions as medieval serfs (minus the frequent holidays and feast days).

The neofeudalist lords of course will live by none of these rules.


25 posted on 12/12/2019 9:16:05 AM PST by No.6
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

I remember reading about a multi-disciplinary consensus some time in the 19th century that the Earth was 100,000 years old. Biologists, geologists, astronomers were all coming up with the same numbers, so it had to be true, right?


26 posted on 12/12/2019 9:16:15 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: C19fan

So stupid.

When humans didn’t dominate, and there were millions upon millions of cattle like animals, what saved the planet then?

I hate these people beyond words. Take your little spoiled beeyotch Greta, and go away.


27 posted on 12/12/2019 9:17:52 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: C19fan

These motherflockers cut down forests for their environmentally stupid wind turbines and solar panels every day.


28 posted on 12/12/2019 9:20:24 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is now a hate-group)
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To: C19fan

The elites will be eating filet mignon for centuries—count on it.

Some pigs are more equal than others.


29 posted on 12/12/2019 9:20:44 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: C19fan

I’m doing Keto and will do whatever I want.


30 posted on 12/12/2019 9:22:30 AM PST by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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To: C19fan

I hear that Lefties taste like Chicken . . .


31 posted on 12/12/2019 9:23:02 AM PST by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: C19fan
Because having the government “allow” you access to sustenance is the most powerful form of control.
32 posted on 12/12/2019 9:23:40 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: C19fan

“Scientists” who do not know forest thrive on CO2. We are living in the Orwell’s world of “1984”


33 posted on 12/12/2019 9:24:49 AM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: C19fan

“Peak Meat” sounds like something Ron Jeremy would have starred in back in the 70’s.


34 posted on 12/12/2019 9:24:56 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: C19fan

There was a vegan on here the other day denying that politics and veganism had any relation at all.


35 posted on 12/12/2019 9:25:07 AM PST by KobraKai
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To: King_Corey

“...more overweight people...”

They want to feed small villages in Africa and Asia, with those newly-created fat people. Heh.


36 posted on 12/12/2019 9:26:10 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: C19fan

More propaganda from the idiots in the UK. I guess that’s redundant.


37 posted on 12/12/2019 9:26:51 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: C19fan

10 years left?

I think I’ll go to Morton’s tonight and order the best steak and potato wedges

I’ll start with their iceberg lettuce and blue cheese...


38 posted on 12/12/2019 9:33:15 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: C19fan
Animals emit CO2 and plants need that. And warmth.

These people want genocide by mass starvation.

39 posted on 12/12/2019 9:33:16 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: C19fan
Soylent Green, a ban of fossil fuels and a boot on your neck. Vote Rat.
40 posted on 12/12/2019 9:33:52 AM PST by deadrock
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