Plant-based diet can help tackle climate crisis, UN says

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Agriculture, food production and deforestation are major drivers of climate change, today's report notes.

Image: DPA/PA Images Image: DPA/PA Images THE WORLD MUST shift how it produces food in order to tackle climate change, a United Nations body has warned.

Today’s report notes that climate change has accelerated land degradation, caused deserts to expand and made forests more vulnerable to drought, fire, pests and disease. Our land has already absorbed as much as 29% of mankind’s CO2 emissions in the decade up to 2016. As temperatures rise across the globe, there are fears that absorption rates of CO2 will slow.

“The land that we already use could feed the world in a changing climate and provide biomass for renewable energy,” the report notes. “But it would require early, far-reaching actions across several fronts.” In a statement today, Aditi Sen, Oxfam’s senior climate policy advisor, said: “Land is central to the fight against the climate crisis and hunger. Industrial agriculture, deforestation and increasing weather shocks are destroying the land we depend on for food, with the world’s poorest hit hardest.”

 

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This shouldn't be a recommendation but a law in responsible countries.

Basically we should do everything opposite to what these criminals are telling us to do.

No need to panic, nature will even things up - probably super volcano 🌋

The UN is a corrupt cabal and yet we are supposed to accept guidance from them. Have they addressed the child trafficking issues they have? A corrupt cesspit. Defund it President Trump as you said you would.

Unless action is taken to stop rapid deforestation in countries like Brazil and Indonesia any efforts we make here in Ireland are a drop in the ocean save_the_amazon

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