With 2024 being the hottest year on record to date, researchers across the globe are addressing the temperature rise by rethinking our food systems and encouraging the switch to a plant-based diet.

Their Study Solving Climate Change Requires Changing our Food Systems

I know this article is probably not surprising many people, but theres a few interesting parts, like,

The study explains how our growing demand for meat and animal products is unsustainable, with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimating that demand for meat will double by 2050.

“This demand will require approximately 80 percent of existing forests and shrubland to be converted into land devoted to raising animals. Such a trajectory would have devastating consequences for us and the planet,” Professor Knight said

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The study presented strategies to re-think current food systems, including the removal of government subsidies and higher taxation of animal products to account for externalised costs of animal agriculture.

  • Gorgritch_Umie_KillaOPM
    4·
    3 days ago

    Without any bias whatsoever, i think the first Aussie fast trains should be on the West Coast. Probably just a shortish line from Augusta to Geraldton. ;)

    • ZagorathEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      You joke, but that “shortish line” would actually be considerably longer than the current actual planned first stage, being Newcastle to Sydney.