The problem is you need to eat.
Inside Climate News (10/21/19) reports: "In California, a state legislator introduced a bill called the California Climate-Friendly Food Program, with the goal of promoting plant-based foods in schools and reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to livestock. Within a few months, references to climate change were stripped out of the text and title. The bill instead became the California School Plant-Based Food and Beverage Program. On the other coast, in Maryland, the state's Green Purchasing Committee launched the Carbon-Intensive Foods Subcommittee to study which foods have the largest carbon footprints and to steer the state away from buying those foods. The administration of Gov. Larry Hogan disbanded the committee months later...Early this year, the EAT-Lancet Commission, in a major scientific report, urged a 'comprehensive shift' in the world's diet. In July, the World Resources Institute, the United Nations and other groups released a massive report finding that the world needs to produce 50 percent more food without expanding the food system's carbon footprint. And in August, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report calling for a major overhaul in the global food system. All of them recommend lowering consumption of meat, dairy and carbon-intensive foods, especially in developed countries."
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At least they're being honest about their desire to turn family dinners into fear factor.
CNN (10/25/19) reports: "On a morning in the not-too-distant future, you might toast bread made with cricket flour, drink a protein smoothie made from locust powder, and eat scrambled eggs (made extra-creamy with the fat from mopane caterpillars) with a side of mealworm bacon. That meal will give you four times the iron, more than three times the protein and more key vitamins and minerals than the bread, smoothie, eggs and bacon you eat today -- all while saving the planet...Many countries and traditions have known this for decades, even centuries. According to a 2013 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), at least 2 billion people worldwide eat bugs every day...And then there's the biggest selling point: Devouring bugs instead of methane-producing livestock is an easy, excellent way to deliver quality nutrition to the masses of humanity while helping the environment...Consider the devastating effects of climate change, overfishing, water shortages and a reduced productivity of crop-growing fields, and it's easy to see how insects will soon be the protein of the future."
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"Don't believe what they say about Calif. blackouts They result from *political* failure to hold PG&E accountable after $21 BILLION bail-out. Failure stems from decades-long focus on climate/renewables instead of fortifying electric grid & a weak, distracted governor"
– Mike Shellenberger,
Environmental Progress
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