From the website of Food System NGO, Feedback Do the names ‘Tyson’, ‘Smithfield’, or ‘Cargill’ ring a bell? You might have seen these names in the news over the past weeks – recently their meatpacking plants have emerged as some of the world’s largest COVID-19 hotspots, along with prisons. But unless you work for these …
Justin Fleming says it is possible to reach global net zero by 2050 In late 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C. The report details the projected consequences of global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C, clearly showing 1.5°C is preferable and that every bit of …
By Bronwyn Slater More than 26,000 fires ravaged Brazil’s rainforest during the month of August – the highest number of fires since 2010. Satellite images of the fires caught the attention of news outlets around the world, with the story garnering headlines for many days. There are annual burns in Brazil during the …
A 2019 report by Harvard Scientists, Helen Harwatt and Matthew Hayek, shows how a UK Plant Based Agricultural System enables the UK to meet its Climate Change legal obligations while improving its overall food security Executive Summary The United Kingdom (UK) is not on track to meet its legally binding commitment to reducing greenhouse …
By Bronwyn Slater In October 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a special report on the impact of global warming of 1.5°C. The report, which was the result of 3 years of research, says that going past 1.5°C would be highly detrimental to the planet’s liveability, and that at the …
Edited by James O’Donovan from Wikipedia and ‘Carbon Yoga’ by Sailesh Rao Planetary boundaries (see wikipedia) are an attempt to develop a set of indicators to monitor the health of the global planetary system and to provide governments timely information on what activities need to stop or be changed in order to keep …
In this article James O’Donovan shows how and why Animal Agriculture is the key cause of Climate Change and Veganism can reforest vast areas of land and completely reverse climate change. This article is a bit technical but even if you are not technically minded all you need is addition, multiplication and a little …
Sailesh Rao of Climate Healers imagines a different future where our mission is to heal the Earth’s climate and to accomplish that, we ask ground-breaking questions such as: What would happen to the Earth’s climate if the whole world goes vegan? How can we organize human societies using the internet so that sustainability and equality …
By Keith Akers of The Compassionate Spirit Last December, Sailesh Rao and two of his colleagues made a presentation to the American Geophysical Union, entitled “The Lifestyle Carbon Dividend.” The key point of this paper was that by simply stopping livestock agriculture, we could sequester a lot of carbon and thereby decrease the carbon …
A New report from the Food and Climate Change Research Network finds grass-fed beef is “in no way a climate solution” By Dr. Jennifer Molidor Can you have your beef and eat it too? For years those of us at the Center for Biological Diversity have been saying no… not if you care …