"Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?" = Emission reductions will likely need to be even faster than originally thought. theguardian.com/environment/20…
Graham Epstein
@Graham_Epstein
Marine climate change, conservation, policy & benthic ecology. Time spent walking with my dog, cooking/eating, playing squash and football, campervaning, diving
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This FACT is too often swept under the carpet by some very intelligent and established people in the climate change sector… also add driving less, eating less animal products and buying less stuff…. Caveat: in the global north, and those wealthy individuals in the global south.
We shouldn't let consumers think that we could solve climate change without consuming less, including flying less.View quoted post on X
🥩vs🌽Still not convinced? Big new study... Dietary impacts of #vegans vs high #meat-eaters (UK) - 75% lower GHGs, 75% less land use, 64%⬇️water use, 73%⬇️ eutrophication, 66%⬇️biodiversity loss. NOT including opportunity costs for afforestation/rewilding
nature.com/articles/s4301…
nature.com/articles/s4301…
www.nature.com Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts Nature Food - Modelled estimates of the environmental impact of dietary choices often fail to reflect true dietary practice. This study links a dietary dataset from 55,000 UK consumers with... Sticking my neck out here, but the google scholar alert I just got seems to contain an #AI generated paper. "Unveiling the effect of the fishery industry on blue carbon sequestration" - in the @WileyGlobal journal Sustainable Development (IF 12.5) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…