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\u201cYou cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2015 Jane Goodall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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3-2-1: The impact of lunch, eating for nature, and the easiest change you can make<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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We all know that greenhouse gases are a critical threat to the planet (if you don’t, you’re probably a President of America) and that they come from many different sectors. Browsing the\u00a0numbers<\/a>\u00a0over lunch, it’s clear that everyone, in every sphere of work, needs to get on with making changes with alacrity.<\/p>\n

But little old me, in my little old adventuring world, can’t do very much about \u2013say\u2013 energy-related emissions from manufacturing iron and steel.<\/p>\n

That helplessness or pernicious ‘whataboutery<\/a>‘, too often, is an excuse to therefore do nothing at all.<\/p>\n

Yet billions of people around the world have a choice about what we eat every day, and\u00a0food production is responsible for one-quarter of the world\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>! And not all foods are equal:\u00a0some foods are waaaaaay worse for emissions than others<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Half of the world\u2019s habitable land is used for agriculture<\/a>.\u00a0Habitat loss is the biggest threat to biodiversity, and most of this loss is driven by agriculture. I\u00a0used to just shrug at this and think, ‘that’s sad, but we’ve all got to eat.’ [Here\u00a0are some\u00a0wonderful photos<\/a>\u00a0showing the challenges of feeding the planet.]<\/p>\n

But then I\u00a0started to learn that not all food is equal here either, and that different foods\u00a0require wildly different amounts of land to produce\u00a0a\u00a0gram of protein<\/a>\u00a0or a\u00a0number of calories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By changing\u00a0what<\/em>\u00a0we all eat,\u00a0global farmland use could\u00a0be reduced\u00a0by more than 75%<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 an area equivalent to the US, China, European Union and Australia combined \u2013 and still feed the world. That’s a lot of space for nature, and for riding bikes and hiking!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Those of us who love the outdoors are all troubled by the pollution of our rivers and seas.\u00a0Untreated sewage released by water companies is hitting the headlines, aided by brilliant campaigners like\u00a0Feargal Sharkey<\/a>. But even if that miraculously stopped overnight, the biggest water polluter remains:\u00a0agriculture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I find it\u00a0very<\/em>\u00a0hard to restrict myself to just two books here, as I’ve read so many fascinating books about the food system. But seeing as pretty much everything I’ve written today has pointed to the environmental disaster of beef and dairy, I’ll quote from\u00a0a book which points out that cows are important for biodiversity, when used in regenerative farming where food is a by-product of conservation.\u00a0James Rebanks\u00a0is a great voice for farmers, and I\u00a0love his books.
\n“The current economics of farming are such that almost no genuinely sustainable farming is profitable at present. Farming for nature is economic suicide. Produce meat at a greater cost than intensively produced chicken or pork and you are considered an anachronism on the supermarket shelf.”<\/p>\n