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048: Understanding the IPCC’s New Compendium of Science on Climate, Forests, and Farms

048: Understanding the IPCC’s New Compendium of Science on Climate, Forests, and Farms

FromBionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature


048: Understanding the IPCC’s New Compendium of Science on Climate, Forests, and Farms

FromBionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature

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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Aug 10, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

We eat to live, but the food we’re eating is killing us – not just because of what it does to our bodies, but because of what it does to our climate. Beef, for example, comes from cows that burp out methane, which is a powerful greenhouse gas that traps up to 80-times more heat than carbon dioxide does, and we often chop carbon-absorbing forests to graze those methane-emitting cows, only to throw away one-third of all the food we produce. If there are two things scientists who study this stuff agree on, it’s that we can slow climate change by eating less meat and wasting less food, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) new Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), which was published this morning in Geneva.
Released:
Aug 10, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (94)

We've entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene, and nothing is as it was. Not the trees, not the seas – not the forests, farms, or fields – and not the global economy that depends on all of these. What does this mean for your investments, your family's future, and the future of man? Each week, we dive into these issues to help you Navigate the New Reality.