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Comment by shafyy

It is the highest value target.

Livestock agriculture is the leading driver of climate change AND biodiversity loss. It emits more GHG than all forms of transportation combined. Additionally, if we would let nature reclaim the land that's currently used for livestock agriculture, it has the potential to capture >100% of the CO2 emissions until 2050.

Some recommended reading:

https://blog.yeticheese.com/eating-local-has-tiny-environmen...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4

https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/987

Edit: This seaweed won't even start solving this problem.

parent shafyy 6 years ago

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