Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown (theguardian.com)

Huge reductions in meat-eating are essential to avoid dangerous climate change, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of the food system's impact on the environment. From a report: In western countries, beef consumption needs to fall by 90% and be replaced by five times more beans and pulses. The research [PDF] also finds that enormous changes to farming are needed to avoid destroying the planet's ability to feed the 10 billion people expected to be on the planet in a few decades. Food production already causes great damage to the environment, via greenhouse gases from livestock, deforestation and water shortages from farming, and vast ocean dead zones from agricultural pollution. But without action, its impact will get far worse as the world population rises by 2.3 billion people by 2050 and global income triples, enabling more people to eat meat-rich western diets.

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Are you truly so naive?

[SuperKendall]

And has been going for 30 years? Politics does not plan for that long...

Are you fucking insane. There are plenty of political bodies that plan in way longer timeframes than that.

However this doesn't have to be one of them, because it hasn't been "going on for 30 years" - climate change power grabs are creatures of the moment, which is why just a few decades ago they were trying to grab power based on global cooling....

Sorry but the reality of the situation doesn't mesh with your ignorant world-view.