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Want food security? Eat less meat, major report says.
Europe’s top farming university is calling for smaller livestock herds and a shift toward plant-based diets.Alessandro Ford (POLITICO)
Avoiding Climate Catastrophe: Global Elimination of Meat Production Could Save the Planet
Eliminating all animal agriculture within the next 15 years would drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and also pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.Mike O'Neill (SciTechDaily)
Greta Thunberg Calls COP28 Outcome a 'Betrayal'
"This COP has once again proven that the COP processes are not working in our favor," the climate activist said.oliviarosane (Common Dreams)
"An #EV is a good way to cut carbon #emissions, but so, it turns out, is a four-day workweek. Do them both, and a thousand other things—and fast—and we might have a shot. "
The first thing a good solar installer does is to make you beef up the insulation in your home: that way you need less solar on the roof.
S: build public transit and bike lanes first, then electrify the remaining cars.
#EnergyTransition #MineralMining #degrowth #JustTransition
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/to-save-the-planet-should-we-really-be-moving-slower
To Save the Planet, Should We Really Be Moving Slower?
Bill McKibben assesses the validity of the arguments that both degrowthists and those who are pro-green-tech make for how we should address climate change.Bill McKibben (The New Yorker)
Rising temperatures could transform plankton and other tiny aquatic organisms into a huge source of #carbon #emissions, a little-known—and potentially catastrophic—climate tipping point that could accelerate #globalwarming.
A study, published Thursday in Functional Ecology, found that rising temperatures cause a sudden shift in these microbes’ eating habits, flipping them from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters.
https://grist.org/science/plankton-climate-tipping-point-carbon-emissions/
Another climate tipping point to worry about: Plankton
Rising temperatures could turn one of the world's most common organisms into a major source of carbon emissions.Kate Yoder (Grist)
Breaking news :/
Based on daily data, the atmospheric CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa averaged ~424.0 ppm over May 2023. That's ~3.0 ppm higher than last year, and that's a lot.
It is also the highest monthly average on record, and most probably of the last 15 million years.
#co2 #ClimateChange #globalwarming #maunaloa #greenhousegas #emissions
Sabotaging Oil and Gas Infrastructure Is an Act of Climate Heroism - System Change Not Climate Change
As corporations build fossil fuel infrastructure despite protests, we must take the tactic of sabotage seriously.Ted (System Change Not Climate Change)