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SPOTLIGHT ON CLIMATE

Spotlight on Climate: A delicious diet for a dying planet

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We’ve all heard about the many ways we can reduce our carbon footprints. We do our best to implement them when we can. We shut off the lights. We ride our bicycles. Some of us make special efforts to purchase clean electricity. We demand sustainability from our governments. Sure, those are all good things to reduce our impact on climate. But how far do these things really get us? What else could we be doing to reduce our carbon footprints?

Did you know that our food system plays a big part in the degradation of our planet and that it’s a huge source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions? Specifically, raising and feeding animals to eat them, aka animal agriculture, contributes the majority of our most damaging greenhouse gases: methane and nitrous oxide. The most comprehensive studies of our global food system have shown that plant-based diets reduce our food-related emissions by up to 73%.



Dr. Jolene Bowers, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University and the Northern Arizona Climate Change Alliance, .



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