Your Questions About Food and Climate Change, Answered: NYT

The average greenhouse gas impact (in kilograms of CO₂) of getting 50 grams of protein from:

An excellent article on the climate change impact of various diets. below are sample graphics. The actual site is interactive and packed full of information. The article concludes with some suggested recipes for a climate friendly diet.

Here are a few shots of the excellent article.

Related: Recipes: Celebrate Sustainable Food for Planet A on our blog

Does what I eat have an effect on climate change? 

 

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Climate Friendly Recipes

Related: Recipes: Celebrate Sustainable Food for Planet A on our blog

The Green Recovery: how Australia can close the recycling loop: The Guardian - Video

Remember when you would take your TV to get repaired if it was broken? 

Now, most people just buy a new one. 

When a new phone comes out, we ditch the old one. Each time we do this we're eating into a finite supply of resources and creating mountains of waste. 

A circular economy – also known as closing the loop – is when used items don't end up in landfill, but instead become the building blocks for new products. 

There's a whole industry waiting to be developed in Australia, if governments would get on board. 

This man turns discarded coffee cups into roads.

Related: There is an answer to post Covid-19 economic chaos.

WHO Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19: Video

The WHO Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19 lists six steps to create a healthier , fairer  and greener world while investing to maintain and resuscitate the economy. 
 

More information: https://www.who.int/news-room/feature...

 

Related:  Why COVID deniers and climate skeptics paint scientists as alarmist (excerpt): Grist

Forests, logging and climate change: IA

Logging has a serious effect on climate change, writes Frances Pike.

THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL for Climate Change (IPCC) recommends that "natural solutions" are employed to deal with climate change emergency. The immediate protection and restoration of natural systems for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) are preferred to geo-engineering and B.E.C.C.S — burning biomass as a fossil fuel substitute while using some sort of carbon capture and storage.

It is clear that the resilience of natural systems must be enhanced to withstand climate change impact, lest they falter and collapse, inhibiting their capacity for CDR.

The fairytale that burning wood instead of coal is carbon neutral continues to wreak havoc on the world’s extant forests. But that fairytale could soon end, taking with it the myth that the industrial logging of the world’s native forests has been and is now "sustainable".

For a long time, the falsity of carbon emission accounting for forest bioenergy has been apparently invisible to many policymakers. A Weekend Australian commentator said, in relation to UK power station Drax which has converted to wood: “The CO2 it emitted as a coal station was causing climate change; the increased CO2 now emitted from burning wood is defined by the EC bureaucrats as not existing”.

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Related: Want to beat climate change? Protect our natural forests: The Conversation

Why Growth Can’t Be Green

"New data proves you can support capitalism or the environment — but it’s hard to do both."

"But ending growth doesn’t mean that living standards need to take a hit. Our planet provides more than enough for all of us; the problem is that its resources are not equally distributed. We can improve people’s lives right now simply by sharing what we already have more fairly, rather than plundering the Earth for more. Maybe this means better public services. Maybe it means basic income. Maybe it means a shorter working week that allows us to scale down production while still delivering full employment. Policies such as these — and countless others — will be crucial to not only surviving the 21st century but also flourishing in it."

Read the Medium article