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With the current debate between George Monbiot and Allan Savory leaving folk on both sides struggling to feel heard (including me) I thought I’d try and explain a bit more about why the grazing GM refers to and the grazing AS refer to are not the same - bear with me! 🧵 1/20

📢 It's out! The paper by Agustin del Prado Guillermo Pardo and me (BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change & GCC Group) at #npjClimAtmosSci npj Journals on emissions in two savannas in northern Tanzania, one dominated by wild herbivores and the other dominated by ruminant livestock. 🧵 (1/9) nature.com/articles/s4161…

Biden said "we lose it all” if we warm beyond 1.5C. Unhelpful rhetoric, unsupported by the science. It's a continuum not a cliff. We've lost much already, and lose more with each fraction of a degree. If we miss the 1.5C exit ramp, we still go for 1.6C exit rather than give up.

Wild herbivores generate greenhouse gas emissions, too, not just domesticated ruminant livestock. This is a great example of how similar emissions between the two can be. Take away: We must include (baseline) emissions from wild herbivores when quantifying livestock emissions.

For the life of me, I absolutely cannot comprehend at what point a voluntary 4-H project became compulsory?!?! At no point is any child obligated to keep participating in any project whatsoever, especially one where they are made to feel uncomfortable.

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When I say the grazing/livestock conversation requires nuance, THIS 👏 IS 👏 WHAT 👏 I 👏 MEAN👏 Thank you for articulating this so well.

“Our place in the world is to manage our piece of the world,” Chook Chook Hillman, a Karuk community organizer and cultural practitioner, told NOVA. "That's part of the reciprocity that has allowed us to live here for so long.” pbs.org/wgbh/nova/arti…

Excellent piece on the coloniality of (militarized) conservation in #Congo and beyond with wise words from @AbySene9 and my former colleague Mathew Bukhi Mabele

This is an important piece and I’m glad it’s making the rounds, but it’s essential to add this caveat: DEIJ matters not only bc of the way it improves science, but also bc it results in a more equitable/just community that can change people’s lives. science.org/content/blog-p…

Ecological theory and experience tells us that just leaving a heavily degraded ecosystem to natural processes means we will be waiting a long time for nature recovery There is nothing wrong with interventions to set these systems on a path of recovery science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Like most academics, my email is a black hole. Still, I try to respond to all grad student emails regardless if they're at "my" univ or not. But if you email me to pick my brain on Indig research, I will first ask: do you or any of your PhD advisors identify as Indigenous? 1/

I applaud Oxford and Leverhulme for organizing this debate, and I do think it is sorely needed. Unfortunately, a disappointment, albeit an expected one. IMO, the winner of the debate is the audience member who asserts that they are actually in agreement, despite flaws from both.

Agroecology for a Sustainable Agriculture and Food System: From Local Solutions to Large-Scale Adoption New AECP paper led by Frank Ewert ZALF in the Annual Review of Resource Economics Annual Reviews annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

There can be NO sustainable food systems without livestock. If you haven't thought about agriculture this way, please consider this - It's the production of biomass - the majority of which is NOT edible by humans. Even food crops produce more inedible biomass. As Prof Windisch