Popped to mind immediately upon seeing the word Portia
While we should absolutely use our backyards to make some space for nature, there’s going on more than this. Even in nature reserves, insect counts seem to be going down. Last I heard, it’s still not entirely clear what’s going on, but probably related to certain types of pesticides.
Read till the end. About 50% on foot and 30% with public transport.
IIRC, this actually happens. When the balance is disturbed, the mushrooms go wild and destroy young sapplings. Could be I recall incorrectly and it’s actually other species. I cannot recommend The Mother Tree enough, it goes into great detail of the history of research into this
It makes me so mad we don’t just tell the flight industry that by date X no planes that use traditional fuel can be produced, and by date Y that they won’t be allowed to fly. Doesn’t even need to a global agreement, if the European market is closed, than that could be motivation enough. And it would focus innovation on efficiency instead of frivolous stiff like this.
They’re really pretty easy to find. But it’s just basic physics. A cow doesn’t eat to turn food into meat, it eats to stay alive. The business of living (and not in the least, that means farting lots of methane) consumes 90% of the food, only 10% is turned into meat. This varies a lot of course, depending on species and feeding regime.
The organic stuff itself, maybe. But there’s a lot of carbon involved in driving tractors and transport. All of which is vastly reduced by eating 1 plant instead of growing 10 plants to grow one steak.
And we are still increasing the rate at which we are making it worse…
Ironically, De Croo was also criticised here in Belgium for that speech being way too soft.
Buffalo weren’t eaten to almost extinction. And they don’t give birth to 10 calves at a time.
It’s a laughing stock here in Belgium
That’s just paid leave. You get as many sick days…as you are, you know, sick.
Well, to be honest, there are some limits in place for long term sickness
That’s a short but touching poem.