Emissions from food alone could use up all of our budget for 1.5°C or 2°C – but we have a range of opportunities to avoid this
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If we want to meet our global climate targets we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food. What options do we have?

We cannot address climate change without moving away from fossil fuels. Equally, as we show in this article, we cannot reach our climate targets without tackling global food production. Even if we stopped emissions from fossil fuels right now, emissions from food production alone would take us well beyond the carbon budget for 1.5°C, and leave little room to reach our 2°C target.

Let’s be clear on what this means: if we stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow and eliminated all other emissions, food production alone would take us past our 1.5°C target by mid-century.

Wow damn look at that, looks like selfish carnist fucks are being anti-science again.

"i'll just wait for lab grown meat" Bruh i've been vegan 5 years, just pick up a vegan patty right now instead of waiting for a corporation to sell you some vaporware after 20 fucking years of promising it

Look at this fucking chart. A plant rich, not even fully vegan diet reduces our greenhouse emissions from food literally 48% fucking percent. You carnist fucks think it's fine to keep doing business as usual still or you gonna wait for a corporation to tell you when it's time to jump?

Look at this other fucking chart about methane.

It could be argued that red meat and dairy have a much higher footprint because its emissions are dominated by methane – a greenhouse gas that is much more potent but has a shorter lifetime in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Methane emissions have so far driven a significant amount of warming – with estimates ranging from around 23% to 40% of the total – to date.1

To calculate CO2eq one needs to multiply the amount of each greenhouse gas emissions by its GWP100 value – a value which aims to represent the amount of warming that each specific gas generates relative to CO2. For example, the IPCC adopts a GWP100 value of 28 for methane based on the rationale that emitting one kilogram of methane will have 28 times the warming impact over 100 years as one kilogram of CO2.4

so tl;dr methane has a 28 FUCKING TIMES WARMING IMPACT THAN CO2 AND PEOPLE ARE STILL FUCKING BREEDING ANIMALS TO KILL FOR FOOD.

From a climate perspective, if you act like eating meat doesn't matter, YOU ARE BEING ANTI-SCIENCE.

Fucking anti-science lib scum. Just eat a fucking bean burger you propagandized babies.