We Can’t Solve Climate Change Until We Fix Our Food System

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Jonathan Foley, a local weather options scientist and govt director of Project Drawdownnot too long ago gave a TED Speak that lays down some laborious truths in regards to the local weather impacts of our present meals system, saying “… we cannot solve climate change unless we also address the problems of food alongside fossil fuels and energy.” Foley makes the connection between meals and local weather, and then provides some data-backed approaches which can be doable proper now — no new know-how required — that may successfully scale back the local weather impacts of our meals system.

With regards to lowering emissions to deal with the local weather disaster, the meals system doesn’t get practically the eye that clear power and clear transportation get, however it’s going to take much more than photo voltaic panels and electrical automobiles to “solve” local weather change. Our food system has a variety of large local weather levers that may be pulled beginning in the present day, and as Foley concludes, he shares his perception that the problem is definitely “an incredible opportunity.”

“So how are we going to maneuver ahead right here? Nicely, I feel we even have an unbelievable alternative dealing with us in the present day. Whereas the meals and local weather disaster is a gigantic problem, in fact, I additionally see it as an unbelievable alternative. And that chance is to construct a wholly higher meals system. We might have a meals system that actually nourishes the world, in the present day and into the longer term. We might have a meals system that reduces stress on nature and even assist restore a few of it. And we might have a meals system that truly stops local weather change. That’s completely doable and at our fingertips in the present day. And we might do all of this on the similar time.

“And what’s so beautiful today is this is already possible. None of this requires some new technology. It requires us to change. That’s it. And we just need to choose it. But if we do, we can follow the science, and we can collaborate across this whole range of solutions and actually unlock a much better future.”

Jonathan Foley: The problem with food and climate — and how to fix it