Climate Change : How land use is accelerating the crisis

Global Warming and Climate Change have two well known culprits : Energy and Transport. But there are two more co-conspirators contributing catastrophically to the crisis. Those partners are Land Use and Intensive Livestock Farming. A new book by Mike Berners-Lee looks at these and every other aspect of Climate Change in the 21st Century. This week we take a quick look at Chapter One : FOOD


Reference Links:

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/There_Is_No_Planet_B.html?id=Z96CDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.statista.com/statistics/721215/soybeans-export-volume-brazil/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/when-it-comes-to-soy-china-is-getting-more-from-the-trade-truce

https://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/deforestation_calculations.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48043134

https://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org

http://www.fao.org/home/en/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-agriculture-soybeans/brazil-exports-80-percent-of-soy-to-china-in-january-august-agriculture-ministry-idUSKCN1LU2MT


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