It’s always something doomy, and always about you being forced to change your life
How could the way we eat contribute to global warming?
Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans produce and consume food could add nearly 1 degree of warming to the Earth’s climate by 2100, according to a new study.
Continuing the dietary patterns of today will push the planet past the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) limit of warming sought under the Paris climate agreement to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to the study published Monday in Nature Climate Change, and will approach the agreement’s limit of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
The modeling study found that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions come from three major sources: meat from animals like cows, sheep and goats; dairy; and rice. Those three sources account for at least 19 percent each of food’s contribution to a warming planet, according to the study, with meat contributing the most, at 33 percent.
Well, good luck with this. Do you think that most people will give these up? Try forcing Asians to give up rice. Muslims and Africans to give up sheep and goat. People around the world to give up cow, deer, etc. Kids to give up milk.
“I think the biggest takeaway that I would want (policymakers) to have is the fact that methane emissions are really dominating the future warming associated with the food sector,” said Catherine C. Ivanovich, a climate scientist at Columbia University and the study’s lead author.
If you’re aiming this at lawmakers, it is a political document, attempting to get politicians to pass laws which restrict you, the Citizen.
Ivanovich and colleagues from the University of Florida and Environmental Defense Fund calculated the three major gases produced by each type of food over its lifetime based on current consumption patterns. Then they scaled the annual emissions over time by gas based on five different population projections.
Interesting. They worked with a hardcore leftist Authoritarian group, the EDF, to come up with this.
A major question that remains is whether food producers and consumers can change their behavior in order to achieve the reductions in greenhouse gases laid out in the study. There’s a roadmap, but will it be followed?
Well, we’re not seeing the climate cultists and casual Warmists really change their own lives, are we?
Current diet also makes Americans obese. Could/should Americans change their diet?
Teach would that include you?
10 out of 10 of the states with the highest rate of obesity are red
9 out of 10 states with the lowest rate of obesity are blue
Got fat chicks?
Low information Johnny-are you sure all those that are obese in red states actually vote red? Are you sure all those who aren’t obese in blue states vote blue? You don’t? Then why keep posting such stupid sh_t?
Control. It’s all about control. Control over others is like heroin to leftists.
Just because an article or a book was published does not mean there is an iota of truth within. Heck, the Clintons and Obamas supposedly wrote a few books, Biden colored one or two.
Mrs Pico made tacos this evening, using real ground-up cow.