Stop burning stuff! "It may be tempting to add cardboard, plastic, old clothing and other waste to your home fire to keep warm and save money. But…burning waste indoors has serious consequences for air pollution and especially for the amount of cancer-causing chemicals in the air."
Tests show adding just 10% of waste to a wood burner indoors can double its particle pollution
It would seem that reducing the number and size of the ranches would be an effective way of addressing the problem. And that the most effective way to do that is to cut meat and dairy consumption.
Also Lula: More Hamburgers Please! www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Note: Burning Brazilian forests to increase grazing land for cattle is a major driver of climate change.
The billionaire Batista brothers’ stunning comeback is thrusting them into Brazil’s highest circles of power less than three weeks after their appointment to the board of JBS SA.
What is the livestock density of Lebanon? In many places species like this are considered competition. People prefer to eat the livestock themselves.
Enjoy that burger!
‘It’s guerrilla warfare’: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes – and the arsonists who start them
Firefighters and police in Rondônia battle fires intensified by both the climate crisis and a criminal assault on the rainforest
‘It’s guerrilla warfare’: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes – and the arsonists who start them
Firefighters and police in Rondônia battle fires intensified by both the climate crisis and a criminal assault on the rainforest
More data supporting the Huanan Wet Market as the origin of COVID, which has always seemed to be the most likely hypothesis. (The Venn diagram of lab leak theorists and Great Barrington Declaration cranks is close to a circle, which should be another cause for lab leak skepticism.)
#MedSky🧪#IDSky #EpiSky Genetic tracing of market wildlife & 🦠 at the epicenter of the #COVID19 pandemic.Common ancestor of #SARSCoV2 linked to Huanan market matches the global common ancestor. Wildlife mitochondrial DNA in samples from stalls positive for #SARSCoV2 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
DNA of mammalian wildlife species susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 was detected along with SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses in environmental samples from animal stalls located at the market epicenter of the emer...
"Meat and dairy specifically accounts for around 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions" "Globally, aviation produced 2.4 percent of total CO2 emissions". interactive.carbonbrief.org/what-is-the-...ourworldindata.org/global-aviat...
Also: There’s not a huge contrast between billionaires traveling by private jet while we chow down on cheeseburgers. * Most cheeseburgers are not consumed by billionaires.
No, "companies directly venting CH4 have not caused 63% as much warming as humanity's cumulative CO2 emissions". These should be stopped, for sure, but there are other sources of fossil CH4 & the biggest single source of anthropogenic methane is the meat/dairy industry. Our diets also need to change