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by myshpa 3y ago
Authoritarian? Our society is already far from perfect. IPCC: We must change food production to save the world, says leaked report. Cutting carbon from transport and energy ‘not enough’ IPCC finds. Among the measures put forward by the repo
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by myshpa 3y ago
> You can't just plant a bunch of trees in the desert ... soil and microbiome ... I'm aware. There are methods like enhancing the sand with soil sludge (nutrients & microbiome), for example. > something that would probab
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Your chart shows if we adopted a fish base diet it would do more good than a plant based diet that included tomatoes. It's not the same and easily comparable. https://www.seaspiracy.org/facts Today only 3% of paci
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by myshpa 3y ago
Equilibrium? We're in the overshoot, and have crossed safe boundaries long ago. Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-glob...
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by myshpa 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36858584 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/14/reforest... Offsetting agricultural emissions through reforestation would cost 15pc of f
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by myshpa 3y ago
> It seems like chicken is better than fish is wayyy better than red meat. You're right, but only if you count carbon footprint. You also have to count in destroyed/damaged/polluted ecosystems, elimination of wildlife, def
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by myshpa 3y ago
It could be so. The theory is that if we were to implement that, we should start at the coasts, establish dense forests there, and then continue planting inland. (2015) https://theecologist.org/2015/mar/02/wit
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by myshpa 3y ago
> In many cases zero more plants need to be produced to raise cattle ... Meat does not grow from co2 alone. > slaughtering systems have been continuously developed to alleviate that as much as possible See for yourself how much is pos
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Animal agriculture uses land that can't be farmed all over the world Animal ag uses land that was stolen from wildlife and deforested. > vegans have well documented health problem Sorry, that's not true at all. Sustainable
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I'm citing OurWorldInData article, trusted/reliable enough, backed by research ... try reading it / or at least skimming the graphs present there.
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This is not a reply I'd expect at all @ hacker news. If world numbers are not good enough for you, do you want numbers specifically for argentina or the us? Or some other from those 200+ countries that exist? From a random stranger on
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by myshpa 3y ago
Trees / forests literally make their own rain. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic_pump
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by myshpa 3y ago
From the article: Many believe that air-freight is more common than it actually is. Very little food is air-freighted; it accounts for only 0.16% of food miles.9 But for the few products which are transported by air, the emissions can be ve
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by myshpa 3y ago
> I'd have guessed parking lots and sprawl are more destructive in total and on an ongoing basis than farming https://ourworldindata.org/land-use Half of all habitable land is used for agriculture. 80% of that is an
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by myshpa 3y ago
> what exactly "high meat" means From the study: high meat-eaters (≥100 g total meat consumed per day) https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w > I am also curious how this changes based on wh
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Read the study then.
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by myshpa 3y ago
1. https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/vegans-kill-animals-too Crop fields do indeed disrupt the habitats of wild animals, and wild animals are also killed when harvesting plants. However, this point makes the case for a
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Ripping up these ecosystems to grow nuts and beans would be "worse" for the environment. No, you could reforest/rewild those lands and stop droughts and and biodiversity loss and repair microclima and soil health etc. et
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> What isn't obvious but should be is that this isn't the way to save the environment It is very probable that this is the most important thing we could do. There are possibly hundreds of studies proving that. Ask, and I shal
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Greenland has greener history than previously thought(phys.org)
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100% coral mortality found in coral reef off Florida as ocean temperatures soar(cbsnews.com)
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Vegan diet has 30% of the environmental impact of high-meat diet, major study(theconversation.com)
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Climate scientists’ horror and exasperation as global predictions play out(theguardian.com)
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Is Free Market Capitalism Sustainable?(transformatise.com)
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We’re in the midst of a climate emergency, and yet the rules of the game continue to go unquestioned
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Full text of the tweet: Its Winter in Antarctic and shockingly, almost 2 million kilometers² (about 772,000 miles²) less sea ice in Antarctica compared to same point last year Even most dire climate models did not predict this to happen unt
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Collapse Warning: Antarctic Sea Ice -2M km² in 2023, Surpassing 2050 Predictions(twitter.com)
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We have 2 choices now. Either we do it, or we let nature handle the problem. One option is much better than the other.
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by myshpa 3y ago
I'll bite. For start - stop fossil fuels in transport & energy, minimize plastic production - stop subsidizing meat & dairy, reform agriculture (pollution, eutrophication, soils) - reforest / rewild pastures, stop overfish
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Burn it all down and start over We won't be the ones doing that. > We're going to have to figure this sustainability thing out though It may be already late. I wish it wasn't so. I think we could have chance at repair

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