@Loukas

We have a boat - it is us, We, the People.

When it comes to the #ClimateEmergency - It is not hopeless & we, the people are not helpless! If we take individual action now - without asking anyone! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/28/climate-crisis-emergency-rebecca-solnit-terry-tempest-williams

IMO, it’s up to us – WE,THE PEOPLE, to save planet Earth by becoming #EcoConciousConsumers https://www.thinkhousehq.com/features/climate-conscious-consumerism-what-is-it-and-how-do-we-do-it who actively mitigate global warming by our daily choices of: who we donate to, vote for, invest/divest/bank in; what we buy, eat, drive/pedal; to switch from gas to electric; to reduce, reuse, recycle; & consume less. https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2018/12/27/35-ways-reduce-carbon-footprint/

In the film: “Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnyLIRCPajM tells us that “preventing run-away Global Warming is the single most important task in all of human history - and it is up to us to do it. If we don’t then everything else we have achieved in our lives will become meaningless”!

The United nation says: “Everyone can help limit climate change. From the way we travel, to the electricity we use, the food we eat, and the things we buy, we can make a difference.” https://www.un.org/en/actnow/ten-actions

Greta Thunberg says - “Politicians are not coming to the rescue of planet Earth” https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2022/10/greta-thunberg-guest-edit-politicians-rescue-planet & “Saving the world is voluntary…we need billions of #climate activists” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/08/greta-thunberg-climate-delusion-greenwashed-out-of-our-senses

Robert Reich @rbreich Says “A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_sjfchNsiM&t=15s But, these Oligarchs got rich by convincing us to buy products that we don’t actually need & that are harmful to our planet. So, stop buying those products!

William Stanley Jevons said: “Value is created by the consumer, not the producer… the consumer is the ‘ultimate regulator of demand’” - https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/11/how-humans-became-consumers/508700/ So people - stop demanding!

DR. SAILESH RAO position paper https://climatehealers.org/the-science/animal-agriculture-position-paper/ says: “...animal agriculture is the leading cause of climate change, responsible for at least 87% of annual GHGs.”

Imagine the effect on Global Warming if just 50% of us decided to #EatPlantbased or #EatVegan or #EATLancet! https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/plant-based-diets-slash-carbon-emissions/

@seachanger

And yet not one word about the leading cause of #ClimateChange

https://climatehealers.org/the-science/animal-agriculture-position-paper/ Says that “AAg is the Leading Cause of Climate Change”

Choosing to #EatPlantBased or #EatVegan or #EATLancet may be our only defense against AAg

“The EAT-Lancet Commission says that we can feed 10 Billion people a healthy diet within IPCC goals.” https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/

🔗nytimes.com/2022/02/01/opinion/climate-sustainability-agriculture-lobby.html

“We cannot address climate change without moving away from fossil fuels. ‘Equally’, we cannot reach our climate targets without tackling global food production. Even if we stopped emissions from fossil fuels right now, emissions from food production alone would take us well beyond the carbon budget for 1.5°C, and leave little room to reach our 2°C target.” https://ourworldindata.org/food-emissions-carbon-budget

The EAT-Lancet Commission says that we can feed 10B people a healthy diet within IPCC goals. https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/

“The annual methane emissions from AAg alone causes more incremental global warming than the annual CO2 emissions from all FF sources combined.” https://climatehealers.org/the-science/animal-agriculture-position-paper/

✔️ out:
https://50by40.org/2022/03/03/5-key-takeaways-latest-ipcc-report-on-food-systems/ https://www.vegkit.com/blog/going-vegan-can-switching-to-a-plant-based-diet-really-save-the-planet/

So, for the planet, please be a #ClimateConsumers & #EatPlantBased, #EatVegan or #EATLancet

@aljazeera

Your post - "World food costs have hit a record high and are destabilising societies around the globe.
What can be done to curb global food price rises?" is a great reminder of this crisis.

see: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/what-can-be-done-to-curb-global-food-price-rises-inside-story/video/6e60ef3a364926757b292e5034f66799

This is also a good time to remind ourselves that - “We cannot address climate change without moving away from fossil fuels. ‘Equally’, we cannot reach our climate targets without tackling global food production. Even if we stopped emissions from fossil fuels right now, emissions from food production alone would take us well beyond the carbon budget for 1.5°C, and leave little room to reach our 2°C target.” https://ourworldindata.org/food-emissions-carbon-budget

& that The EAT-Lancet Commission says that we can feed 10B people a healthy diet within IPCC goals. https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/
Can healthy food save the planet? Watch: https://eatforum.org/learn-and-discover/can-healthy-food-save-the-planet-animation/

So, for the planet, please be a #ClimateConsumer & #EatPlantBased, #EatVegan or #EATLancet.