Why what we eat is crucial to the climate change question

The Guardian ^ | March 5, 2018 | by Ruth Khasaya Oniang'o

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Did you know that what’s on your plate plays a larger role in contributing to climate change than the car you drive? When most wealthy people think about their carbon footprint, or their contributions to climate change, they’ll think about where their electricity and heat come from or what they drive. They’ll think about fossil fuels and miles per gallon, about LED lights and mass transit – but not so much about combine harvesters or processed meals or food waste. Few consider the impacts of the food they eat, despite the fact that globally, food systems account for roughly one quarter of all manmade greenhouse gas emissions. That’s more than the entire transportation sector, more than all industrial practices, and roughly the same as the production of electricity and heat.

Meanwhile, the most immediate threat of climate change for most of the global population will be at the dinner table, as our ability to grow critical staple crops is being affected by the warming we’ve already experienced.

Just as there’s no universal crop that grows everywhere, there’s no “one size fits all” model food system to implement across the world. A broader systems-wide perspective is necessary if there is any hope for truly transformative change. It’s time to look beyond farming and agriculture and to see the whole picture, to create systems that cause less harm to the climate and are more resilient to the impacts we’re already suffering from global warming.

Food is a fundamental human need and to eat is a basic human right. Our food systems must deliver that need, fairly and equitably, without worsening the impacts of climate change.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Ruth Khasaya Oniang’o is an academic and a winner of the 2017 Africa Food prize.

Joseph Goebbels was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.

[T-Bone Texan]

Ruth is a filthy commie who can play the game of “Let’s Disenfranchise white People From Their Money.”

[existentially_kuffer]

Oh geezers, the stupidity abounds.

[T-Bone Texan]

One photo is of a person who would put me in a death camp and murder me to further their extremist, lunatic agenda.

The other one is a Nazi.

[dsc]

I got a chuckle out of that.

Then I realized that it really should have been alarming.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The best thing for the planet is for you peasants to simply die.

Can you do that for us please?

[butlerweave]

Everyone must eat the universal crop that grows everywhere or starve trying ,LOL

[cranked]

I will not change my eating habits one bit for these idiotic global climate change arseholes, bet.

[RatRipper]

Climate change politics = Communist masquerade = goal of controlling and manipulating the masses = evil = premeditated mass murder

[dfwgator]

[WayneS]

...to eat is a basic human right.

Not true.

[bert]

Socialist utopian disaster...... is rapidly coming to South Africa.

The black tribalists will revert the civilized to nothingness

[abclily]

Didn’t Stalin have a food policy? Didn’t he control crops and starve 50 million Russian citizens? Now this present-day ignoramus communist is going to tell us how to grow our food?

[WayneS]

It’s time to look beyond farming and agriculture ...

That's kind of hard to do when you're talking about food.

[abclily]

OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Food is a fundamental human need and to eat is a basic human right.

TRANSLATION: If I need something, you have a moral obligation to give it to me.

[WayneS]

In the developing world, improving infrastructure along the food chain – including cold storage – would prevent much good food being lost.

Yes. Because industrial-sized refrigeration systems are 100% pollution-free...

[Nifster]

And here it is in full bloom

Trying to force first world countries to eat the way turf world countries do

We want everyone to be miserable. The ultimate goal of communism

[I want the USA back]

I don’t think that eating worms, maggots, caterpillers and grasshoppers is going to keep the temperature down. When the Sun decides to cool down, the temps will go down.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That caught my eye, too. It screams "COMMIE"! Equal outcomes (full plates full of food) for everybody. Reminds me of a parable Mom used to read to me when I was a wee tot. The grasshopper thought he had a "right" to the hard labor of the ant.

Some of learned it...some didn't...