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[pchealth] Eat less meat: UN climate-change report calls for change to human diet

From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
To: sustagnet@googlegroups.com, Permaculturist Health <pchealth@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [pchealth] Eat less meat: UN climate-change report calls for change to human diet
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:01:21 -0400

Eat less meat: UN climate-change report calls for change to human diet
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02409-7?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=b531c8e62d-briefing-dy-20190819&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-b531c8e62d-43832253

The report on global land use and agriculture comes amid accelerating deforestation in the Amazon.

Efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions and the impacts of global warming will fall significantly short without drastic changes in global land use, agriculture and human diets, leading researchers warn in a high-level report commissioned by the United Nations.

The special report on climate change and land by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) describes plant-based diets as a major opportunity for mitigating and adapting to climate change ― and includes a policy recommendation to reduce meat consumption.

[pchealth] Eat less meat: UN climate-change report calls for change to human diet, Lawrence London, 08/19/2019