Posted on 03/05/2018 8:15:28 AM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
“The best thing for the planet is for you peasants to simply die.”
By `peasants’ they mean recalcitrant white people.
Don’t eat. Abort yourself and kill all the animals on Earth.
Liblogic
That they travel rather than telecommute as they lobby for $$$ says all you need to know.
The issue is never the issue:
“Why what we eat is crucial to the climate change question”
There is no question...it’s fiction.
All reasonable people know they can't; however, like the dutiful "speck" politicians they are, they will claim absolute credit for good things they did not do, and they will blame their political opponents for all the really bad things that they did themselves.
"Oh, but you are cynical!", they cry. I claim justifiable cynicism . . . things are usually a lot worse than I suggest.
I've noticed that it starts doing that right around sunset.
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The “environmentalism” and “climate change” AKA “global warming” movement is communism rebranded. Left unchecked it will result in massive genocide.
It has absolutely nothing to do with our environment.
Lying scum.
Saw the headline and immediately thought lunch, humm, bacon; dinner lean hamburger with blue cheese ...
All the planets of the solar system are locked into a cyclic pattern of cooling and warming that is controlled by the sun. The current warm period is already on the decline, and we’re entering a new period of cooling.
As early as 2020, the effects of this natural cooling cycle will be so pronounced, no one will question it. Not even the warmists.
Gearing up to ban meat. Just watch.
Correction
What you eat is key to YOUR HEALTH AND WELL BEING
in turn if you are healthy and fit you can I turn DO MORE GOOD FOR MORE PEOPLE
what you eat has nothing to do with anything else.
Anything in the Guardian is leftist balderdash.
Don't count on that.
Remember Baghdad Bob?
Woof!
Most wealthy people don't think about this stuff. At least, none that I have met.
not too long before the Progs advocate that we peasants just directly eat dirt to avoid all of those “carbon” inputs and outputs required for actual food production ... though of course members of the Politburo and their families and friends will be allowed to eat actual food ...
“Between 1980 and 2008, for instance, wheat yields dropped 5.5 % and maize yields fell 3.8% due to rising temperatures.”
and yet, RECORD yields in 2017. I guess “global warming” must have been temporarily “cured” in 2017, huh?
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2018/01_12_2018.php
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