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Prepare for starvation
Posted on 11/3/22 at 7:58 am
Posted on 11/3/22 at 7:58 am
Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying the planet’
Food companies and governments must come together immediately to change the world’s agricultural practices or risk “destroying the planet”, according to the sponsors of a report by some of the largest food and farming businesses released on Thursday.
The report, from a task force within the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), a network of global CEOs focused on climate issues established by King Charles III, is being released days before the start of the United Nation’s Cop27 climate summit in Egypt.
Many of the world’s largest food and agricultural businesses have championed sustainable agricultural practices in recent years. Regenerative farming practices, which prioritize cutting greenhouse gas emissions, soil health and water conservation, now cover 15% of croplands.
But the pace of change has been “far too slow”, the report finds, and must triple by 2030 for the world to have any chance of keeping temperature rises under 1.5C, a level that if breached, scientists argue, will unleash even more devastating climate change on the planet.
The report is signed by Bayer, Mars, McCain Foods, McDonald’s, Mondelez, Olam, PepsiCo, Waitrose and others. They represent a potent political and corporate force, impacting the food supply chain around the world. They are also, according to critics, some of those most responsible for climate mismanagement with one calling the report “smoke and mirrors” and unlikely to address the real crisis.
Food production is responsible for a third of all planet-heating gases emitted by human activity and a number of the signatories have been accused of environmental misdeeds and “greenwashing”. Activist Greta Thunberg is boycotting Cop this year having called the global summit a PR stunt “for leaders and people in power to get attention.”
“We are at a critical tipping point where something must be done,” said task force chair and outgoing Mars CEO, Grant Reid. “The interconnection between human health and planetary health is more evident than ever before..” Big food companies and agriculture must play a big part in changing that, said Reid. “It won’t be easy but we have got to make it work,” he said.
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Food companies and governments must come together immediately to change the world’s agricultural practices or risk “destroying the planet”, according to the sponsors of a report by some of the largest food and farming businesses released on Thursday.
The report, from a task force within the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), a network of global CEOs focused on climate issues established by King Charles III, is being released days before the start of the United Nation’s Cop27 climate summit in Egypt.
Many of the world’s largest food and agricultural businesses have championed sustainable agricultural practices in recent years. Regenerative farming practices, which prioritize cutting greenhouse gas emissions, soil health and water conservation, now cover 15% of croplands.
But the pace of change has been “far too slow”, the report finds, and must triple by 2030 for the world to have any chance of keeping temperature rises under 1.5C, a level that if breached, scientists argue, will unleash even more devastating climate change on the planet.
The report is signed by Bayer, Mars, McCain Foods, McDonald’s, Mondelez, Olam, PepsiCo, Waitrose and others. They represent a potent political and corporate force, impacting the food supply chain around the world. They are also, according to critics, some of those most responsible for climate mismanagement with one calling the report “smoke and mirrors” and unlikely to address the real crisis.
Food production is responsible for a third of all planet-heating gases emitted by human activity and a number of the signatories have been accused of environmental misdeeds and “greenwashing”. Activist Greta Thunberg is boycotting Cop this year having called the global summit a PR stunt “for leaders and people in power to get attention.”
“We are at a critical tipping point where something must be done,” said task force chair and outgoing Mars CEO, Grant Reid. “The interconnection between human health and planetary health is more evident than ever before..” Big food companies and agriculture must play a big part in changing that, said Reid. “It won’t be easy but we have got to make it work,” he said.
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Posted on 11/3/22 at 7:59 am to djmed
Can’t eat meat.
Now we can’t eat spinach.
Obama thought he could produce manna, tho! We should let him fix this.
Now we can’t eat spinach.
Obama thought he could produce manna, tho! We should let him fix this.
This post was edited on 11/3/22 at 8:00 am
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:01 am to djmed
Man has sustained making food for thousands upon thousands of years and we’ve never made more food than we have the last hundred years. How can these people say food making is not and has not been sustainable?
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:02 am to djmed
People In each generation always have predicted the end of the world scenarios
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:03 am to djmed
We won't have issues here...but for import countries...yes they'll have tons of issues.
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:03 am to djmed
It’s almost like before man cultivating crops there was zero plant life coverage of the ground and large forest
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:03 am to djmed
Oh good grief. Now it's food that causes global warming?
"Plant trees. It's Good for the planet."
"Plant food? You're killing the planet."
"Plant trees. It's Good for the planet."
"Plant food? You're killing the planet."
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:04 am to Nosevens
Difference is that this set appears to be making it fricking happen intentionally.
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:04 am to Meauxjeaux
Malthusian shortages has been disproved for 100 years
Thomas Malthus was an 18th-century British philosopher and economist noted for the Malthusian growth model, an exponential formula used to project population growth.
The theory states that food production will not be able to keep up with growth in the human population, resulting in disease, famine, war, and calamity.
A noted statistician and proponent of political economy, Malthus founded the Statistical Society of London.
Malthus' theories were later used to justify British colonial policies that aggravated the Irish Potato Famine.
The theory is now considered to be largely discredited, as industrialized farming techniques have allowed food production to scale much faster than Malthus anticipated.
Thomas Malthus was an 18th-century British philosopher and economist noted for the Malthusian growth model, an exponential formula used to project population growth.
The theory states that food production will not be able to keep up with growth in the human population, resulting in disease, famine, war, and calamity.
A noted statistician and proponent of political economy, Malthus founded the Statistical Society of London.
Malthus' theories were later used to justify British colonial policies that aggravated the Irish Potato Famine.
The theory is now considered to be largely discredited, as industrialized farming techniques have allowed food production to scale much faster than Malthus anticipated.
This post was edited on 11/3/22 at 9:07 am
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:04 am to djmed
The political class will eat meat and fresh veggies.
You will eat bugs, pills, and canned goods.
You will eat bugs, pills, and canned goods.
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:05 am to LuckyTiger
Wrong.
Politicians may eat that but we’ll eat politicians.
Politicians may eat that but we’ll eat politicians.
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:08 am to Meauxjeaux
quote:
How can these people say food making is not and has not been sustainable?
Because they're liars
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:10 am to djmed
I thought we were going to starve to death this year? What happened?
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:11 am to djmed
My family won't starve.
I'll look up the voter rolls and take food off every Democrat Politicians' plate I can find.
I'll look up the voter rolls and take food off every Democrat Politicians' plate I can find.
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:12 am to cwill
Bingo! I had starvation on my Democrat famine/plague/environmental cataclysm list.
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:12 am to Meauxjeaux
quote:
Man has sustained making food for thousands upon thousands of years and we’ve never made more food than we have the last hundred years. How can these people say food making is not and has not been sustainable?
You are completely ignorant of their point. Something can be done for thousands of years, and then be increased to the point that it is unsustainable - water usage out west, for example. Man has been using water in the American West for thousands of years, but it is reaching the point of being unsustainable.
It could be true - strictly from a logical perspective - that greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture is so high now that it is unsustainable. I don’t offer an opinion on that, but it is not logically unsound as you asserted.
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:12 am to Nosevens
quote:
People In each generation always have predicted the end of the world scenarios
“Every generation thinks the next one is going to be the end. I bet there were people in the Bible walking around, complaining about ‘kids today’.”
- Roger Sterling
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:13 am to Meauxjeaux
quote:
Man has sustained making food for thousands upon thousands of years and we’ve never made more food than we have the last hundred years. How can these people say food making is not and has not been sustainable?
The argument is typically around what we have to do to sustain this increased production, primarily the fertilizers.
MIT article on it
quote:
But ammonia has to be made at a high pressure under high temperatures—meaning it takes a lot of energy to manufacture. Most of that energy comes from burning fossil fuels like coal and methane gas, which give off the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, the main cause of climate change. Ammonia manufacturing today contributes between 1 and 2% of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions
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Fertilizers also produce greenhouse gases after farmers apply them to their fields. Crops only take up, on average, about half of the nitrogen they get from fertilizers.4 Much of the applied fertilizer runs off into waterways, or gets broken down by microbes in the soil, releasing the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide into the atmosphere. Although nitrous oxide accounts for only a small fraction of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions,5 pound for pound, nitrous oxide warms the planet 300 times as much as carbon dioxide.
Fertilizer runoff may also have other downstream ecological effects.
Posted on 11/3/22 at 8:14 am to Meauxjeaux
Because the system is almost entirely reliant on fossil fuels.
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