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Why what we eat is crucial to the climate change question
The Guardian ^ | March 5, 2018 | by Ruth Khasaya Oniang'o

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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

By `peasants’ they mean recalcitrant white people.


21 posted on 03/05/2018 8:44:22 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t eat. Abort yourself and kill all the animals on Earth.

Liblogic


22 posted on 03/05/2018 8:45:48 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: cranked

That they travel rather than telecommute as they lobby for $$$ says all you need to know.

The issue is never the issue:


23 posted on 03/05/2018 8:47:44 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Why what we eat is crucial to the climate change question”

There is no question...it’s fiction.


24 posted on 03/05/2018 8:51:23 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: abclily
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

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.

25 posted on 03/05/2018 8:56:29 AM PST by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

26 posted on 03/05/2018 9:02:45 AM PST by servo1969
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To: I want the USA back
When the Sun decides to cool down, the temps will go down.

I've noticed that it starts doing that right around sunset.

27 posted on 03/05/2018 9:04:56 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bookmark


28 posted on 03/05/2018 9:17:36 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


29 posted on 03/05/2018 9:21:20 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lying scum.


30 posted on 03/05/2018 9:28:12 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Saw the headline and immediately thought lunch, humm, bacon; dinner lean hamburger with blue cheese ...


31 posted on 03/05/2018 9:30:05 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


32 posted on 03/05/2018 9:38:39 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gearing up to ban meat. Just watch.


33 posted on 03/05/2018 9:41:55 AM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


34 posted on 03/05/2018 9:47:43 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anything in the Guardian is leftist balderdash.


35 posted on 03/05/2018 10:02:02 AM PST by simpson96
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To: Windflier
Not even the warmists.

Don't count on that.

Remember Baghdad Bob?

Woof!

36 posted on 03/05/2018 10:15:08 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Our food systems must deliver that need, fairly and equitably, without worsening the impacts of climate change

Must?

What does that mean...exactly...

Sounds like a sociopath to me..trying to tell other people what they _must_ do...
37 posted on 03/05/2018 10:27:40 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
When most wealthy people think about their carbon footprint, or their contributions to climate change

Most wealthy people don't think about this stuff. At least, none that I have met.

38 posted on 03/05/2018 11:42:40 AM PST by NutsOnYew (If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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 ...


39 posted on 03/05/2018 11:56:47 AM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“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


40 posted on 03/05/2018 12:01:17 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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