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The Climate Issue Government Leaders Aren’t Addressing: Livestock Farming
They’ve reviewed every agreement announced at 26 different climates. The results?
Livestock is mentioned in only three agreements, and the only action each of them proposes is “management”. Nowhere is there a word about reduction. It’s as though nuclear non-proliferation negotiators had decided not to talk about bombs. You cannot address an issue if you will not discuss it. The call to stop farming animals should be as familiar as the call to leave fossil fuels in the ground. But it is seldom heard.
Livestock farming, a recent paper in the journal Sustainability estimates, accounts for between 16.5% and 28% of all greenhouse gas pollution. The wide range of these figures is an indication of how badly this issue has been neglected. As the same paper shows, the official figure (14.5%), published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, is clearly wrong. Everyone in the field knows it, yet few attempts have been made to update it. Even if the minimum number (16.5%) applies, this is greater than all the world’s transport emissions.
And it is growing fast. In the 20 years to 2018, global meat consumption rose by 58%. A paper in Climate Policy estimates that, by 2030, greenhouse gases from livestock farming could use half the world’s entire carbon budget, if we want to avoid more than 1.5C of global heating. An analysis by Our World in Data shows that even if greenhouse gas pollution from every other sector were eliminated today, by 2100 food production will, on its current trajectory, bust the global carbon budget two or three times over. This is largely because of animal farming, which accounts for 57% of greenhouse gases from the food system, though it provides just 18% of the calories.
The article also notes an academic paper which calculated that if livestock pastures in just the world’s richest nations were returned to wild ecosystems, it would fully offset 12 years worth of global carbon emissions. “This issue has become even more urgent now we know the heating impact of methane is rising.
“Livestock farming is the world’s greatest source of methane released by human activities. Yet there is no mention of it in the global methane pledge launched at last year’s climate summit.”
Thanks to Slashdot reader AleRunner for sharing the article.
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National Women’s Enterprise Day: Addressing the barriers for entrepreneurs
Ahead of National Women’s Enterprise Day, tech founder Enrika Moore talks about how the Local Enterprise Office can help move the needle for women in business.
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Lizzo Clarifies VMAs Speech, Admits to ‘Addressing Everybody’
Lizzo is getting candid.
For, the ‘About Damn Time’ songstress is now revealing who her acceptance speech at this year’s MTV VMAs was about.
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Viewers at home thought that she threw some shade at comedian Aries Spears after his recent comments about her, however, Lizzo took to Twitter to clarify as to who it was about.
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33 researchers get €10m for projects addressing future health challenges
Ireland’s state-owned healthcare research board will fund projects for a maximum of four years. They will tackle issues from cancer to TB.
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