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We need to talk about your starving grandchildren.
yt.artemislena.euYou might not want to think about this one, but our scientists tell us if we carry on the way we are now, the global food system will have completely broken down by the time a child born today hits retirement age. The good news is, it can be solved. The question is, can we be bothered?
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Research Links
Mike Berners-Lee : There is no Planet B
https://theresnoplanetb.net/
Our World in Data Charts :
1. Employment in agriculture
https://ourworldindata.org/employment-in-agriculture
2. GHG emissions from food
https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions-food
https://ourworldindata.org/food-ghg-emissions
https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector
3. Environmental impacts of food
https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-emissions-supply-chain
4. World calories map
https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply
5. Plant based diet impacts
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
6. Land use for agriculture
https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture
7. Do we really only have 60 harvests left??
https://ourworldindata.org/soil-lifespans
Carbon Brief - Food waste articles
https://www.carbonbrief.org/in-depth-qa-what-food-waste-means-for-climate-change/
https://www.carbonbrief.org/food-waste-makes-up-half-of-global-food-system-emissions/
Rapid phaseout of animal agriculture : Eisen and Brown 2022
https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000010
UN Food and Agriculture Organization
https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/new-fao-report-maps-pathways-towards-lower-livestock-emissions/en
Comparable GHG emissions from animals in wildlife and livestock-dominated savannahs : Manzano et al 2023
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-023-00349-8
Knepp Estate / Wilding book and film
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jun/06/semen-flasks-farming-couple-rewilding-knepp-isabella-tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wha__qRugTw
Recent Observer article about Isabella Tree from Knepp Estate
https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/jun/16/conservationist-isabella-tree-rewilding-is-vital-for-the-uks-agricultural-future
China - lab grown meat plan
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3165879/how-china-plans-lead-world-sustainable-food-latest-five-year-agricultural
Workers in agriculture
https://blog.resourcewatch.org/2019/05/30/map-of-the-month-how-many-people-work-in-agriculture/
World Bank Employment charts
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.AGR.EMPL.ZS?end=2018&most_recent_year_desc=true&start=1991&type=shaded&view=chart
CAFOs
https://vertexeng.com/insights/the-environmental-impacts-of-concentrated-animal-feeding-operations-cafos/
https://www.reuters.com/business/how-four-big-companies-control-us-beef-industry-2021-06-17/
McKinsey : Voice of the American famer
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/agriculture/our-insights/voice-of-the-us-farmer-2023-to-24-farmers-seek-path-to-scale-sustainably
Climate impact on food
https://theconversation.com/food-prices-will-climb-everywhere-as-temperatures-rise-due-to-climate-change-new-research-226345
Agrivoltaics
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/13/farmers-who-graze-sheep-under-solar-panels-say-it-improves-productivity-so-why-dont-we-do-it-more
Check out other YouTube Climate Communicators
zentouro:
https://www.youtube.com/user/zentouro
Climate Adam:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ClimateAdam
Kurtis Baute:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ScopeofScience
Levi Hildebrand:
https://www.youtube.com/user/The100LH
Simon Clark:
https://www.youtube.com/user/SimonOxfPhys
Sarah Karvner:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRwMkTu8sCwOOD6_7QYrZnw
ClimateTown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuVLG9pThvBABcYCm7pkNkA
Jack Harries:
https://www.youtube.com/user/JacksGap
Beckisphere: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT39HQq5eDKonaUV8ujiBCQ
Our Changing Climate :
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQ
My dad will help literally anyone who asks him directly or is even just the friend of a person he knows. He’ll just hand them things he owns or set aside time or just give them free whatever. When he was a manager of a team for a time he was super progressive about it telling his team to take care of themselves while still overworking himself so it’s not like he’s a default “fuck corporate” guy or anything.
Ask him to pay taxes, though, and he suddenly goes full conservative. Tell him it’s hard for servers and he’ll say they should get a better job. Mention arts degrees and he’ll say that’s why education shouldn’t be free. It’s the weirdest fuckin’ thing.