A Guerilla Anthropologist Looks to the Future
We live in a world filled with seemingly insoluble problems. Carbon emissions have increased at such alarming rates that climate experts have had to push forward their dire predictions of ecological devastation. In the face of climate change denial, feckless politicians, especially in the United States, do nothing to confront the most important issue of our times. Instead, they roll back previously insufficient environmental regulations. Our air is getting dirtier. Our water, which is in increasingly short supply, is less safe to drink. Droughts and floods disrupt our supply of food, which, given decreased health regulation, is increasingly unsafe to eat. The future looks even bleaker if you add to this list an ever-expanding income inequality that is in large measure linked to widespread political dysfunction. From the vantage of the seemingly powerless present, what can we do, if anything, to change a pattern that leads us toward eventual extinction?
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[paulstollersblog.com]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The very best thing we can do for the planet is lower the population.
Hathacat
Level 9
Aug 9, 2018
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This is not a population problem it's a capitalism problem . The capitalist few destroy much more than the impoverished many.
the earth could definitely use a good plague!
SkotlandSkye
Level 8
Aug 9, 2018
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The number one thing that people can/could do is adopt a plant-based diet.
Factory Farming is the 2nd leading cause of climate change overall and the number 1 cause of deforestation. Even the WHO has called for people to reduce their consumption of dead animal flesh and move toward a plant-based diet -- for the health of people and the health of the planet.
"Roughly 200 experts in disciplines from nutrition to animal welfare are calling on the World Health Organization to take a more serious look at the impact of industrial livestock production on human health and the climate.
In a letter sent Monday, the group—which includes former New York Times food writer Mark Bittman and environmentalist Bill McKibben—appealed to the WHO, asking that its next director-general work "to reduce the size and number of factory farms." The WHO's World Health Assembly got underway Monday, and the body will elect a new leader this week."
"Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the combined exhaust from all transportation.
Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions."
SkotlandSkye
Level 8
Aug 9, 2018
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"Households should select predominantly plant-based diets rich in a variety of vegetables and fruits, pulses or legumes, and minimally processed starchy staple foods."
Says who?
Say experts from the World Health Organization and the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in a landmark report.
Quoting the report:
"Populations should consume nutritionally adequate and varied diets, based primarily on foods of plant origin with small amounts of added flesh foods. Households should select predominantly plant-based diets rich in a variety of vegetables and fruits, pulses or legumes, and minimally processed starchy staple foods. The evidence that such diets will prevent or delay a significant proportion of non-communicable chronic diseases is consistent. A predominantly plant-based diet has a low energy density, which may protect against obesity."
And another excellent quote..
"Although two-thirds of the world's population depends on cereal or tuber-based diets, the other one-third consumes significant amounts of animal food products. The latter group places an undue demand on land, water, and other resources required for intensive food production, which makes the typical Western diet not only undesirable from the standpoint of health but also environmentally unsustainable. If we balance energy intake with the expenditure required for basal metabolism, physical activity, growth, and repair, we will find that the dietary quality required for health is essentially the same across population groups."
You can read the full report online at:
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