Rob Baylis Ⓥ @mastodonapp.uk Daring to care & given for leaf. Host of Time is Sliding - a podcast about change
@empiricism @silence7 Oxford academic Joseph Poore reported his research in this video https://www.youtube.com/live/zBi8QIc1qXg?feature=share. See also https://josephpoore.com/Science%20360%206392%20987%20-%20Accepted%20Manuscript.pdf and https://animal.law.harvard.edu/.../Eating-Away-at-Climate
@silence7 @empiricism Research has also shown that cutting meat & dairy consumption worldwide would liberate an area of land equivalent to the whole of Africa. That land could be returned to nature and could absorb 16 years worth of global grewnhouse gas emissions.
@bioemerl @silence7 @empiricism methane emissions are over 80 times more potent than CO2 over 20 years. We haven’t got 100 years to constrain climate change to anything like safe levels. Given the rapid decay of methane, a full stop of emissions from animal agriculture by a worldwide cessation of meat, dairy and fish consumption would be a quick way to head off climate change. Continues…