Support farmers not climate denial. The protest is being manipulated for political gain in a year where ~40% of the global population can vote. Incentives for plant foods for us with rewilding for drawdown & biodiversity is the way, not crops to power cars or the livestock industry.
Global food production is *the* biggest pressure on earth systems. And we need equal effort to decarbonize and reduce energy pressure. But food also holds huge opportunities: PlantBasedData.org It being politicized can be good but don’t fall for denial & power tactics.
The best library of peer-reviewed sources relating to a plant-based lifestyle
Food systems are responsible for 25-42% of human-caused emissions and that doesn't include the massive opportunity to drawdown carbon in rewilded pastureland (the single largest user of our Earth's land). www.nature.com/articles/s43...ourworldindata.org/carbon-oppor...
Data on GHG emissions from the food system are mostly scattered across sectors and remain unavailable in many countries. EDGAR-FOOD, a globally consistent food emission database, brings together emiss...
Nah farmers actually kinda suck.