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New Zealand farms 6M dairy cows & is the world's biggest dairy exporter. 44% of NZ GHGs are from livestock So it's no surprise the new push to use GWP* & claim to be climate-neutral with a mere 0.3% GHG ⬇️/yr New: desmog.com/2024/12/06/ind… My GWP* report changingmarkets.org/wp-content/upl…

Ultra-Processed Rewilding

Whole food plant-based for the win again. Even the original 'processed' plant-based options like tofu & tempeh are excellent choices factoring in nutrition, health, environment, & cost. Shout out to Seitan & TVP not mentioned but would also do well. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

“We’re being protected, not by the FDA, CDC or USDA, but by the genetic structure of the virus itself, which currently doesn’t transmit between human hosts. H5N1 could achieve the ability to do so with a single mutation.” thegauntlet.news/p/bidens-usda-…

Billionaires branded as champions of the poor is something we can leave in 2024

“Any person who says something is ‘settled’ is not a real scientist.” This is ridiculous. All current scientific inquiry proceeds on the assumption that enormous numbers of scientific questions are, in fact, settled. “Nothing is settled” is the mantra of a contrarian

It takes a lot of courage to research, speak truth to power, and continuously call out those preventing positive changes. Prof Steinberger's done that tirelessly. Read her work here: scholar.google.com/citations?user…

Our eco & social issues stem from certain individuals desire for dominance & control over others. Those consistently pushing misinfo are rarely doing it out of cognitive ignorance, but instead it's manipulative power tactics, ignoring repercussions. New: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In terms of helping to convince people that information is true and trustworthy, fact checking does work. "When one party, at least in the United States, is spreading most of the misinformation, it’s going to look like fact-checks are biased because they’re getting called out

World meat production is expected to double by 2050. This would require that we convert 80% of existing forests & shrubland for meat & dairy production - an additional 35 million km2 of land, equating to the combined area of Australia & Africa. New study academic.oup.com/oocc/article/5…

The dairy industry is in trouble. So the latest ploy is to make manure more valuable, capturing manure methane to con taxpayers thinking this offsets burps It's a last effort that's working since animal agriculture has the biggest lobby of any industry vox.com/future-perfect…

Tomorrow at 7ET, I’m giving a talk to Massachusetts Sierra Club on the environmental impacts of fish farming. It’s free for anyone to tune in. Find the link in the next post. ⬇️

A newly surfaced document reveals how the beef industry knew about its role in climate change as early as 1989, and crafted a plan to fight back against environmentalists & potential regulation: vox.com/future-perfect…

More than ever, we need to empower all to be able to evaluate evidence, seek truth, & spot manipulation. Deceiving the public is antidemocratic. Countering disinformation is not a threat to free speech; it's a response to unchecked industry propaganda. emc-lab.org/uploads/1/1/3/…

Nobody is immune to misinformation. But... In a new study of 66k people across 24 countries, conservatives had the lowest ability to spot misinfo. Education mattered too & Gen Z scored lowest across all age groups: doi.org/10.1016/j.paid… Good coverage: cbc.ca/radio/quirks/m…