Australian listed regenerative agriculture company Wide Open Agriculture (ASX: $WOA) is leading the way as a listed regenerative agriculture company with a focus on returns for community, environment, financial and inspiration. Here is a great video on how Europe is driving change towards regenerative agriculture.
In particular hot temperatures, but also changes in general. Not doomday statistics, more innovative.
The Keto Way: What If Meat Is Our Healthiest Diet?
Eating high-fat, low-carbohydrate foods has helped many people battle obesity, diabetes and other health problems—even as livestock agriculture contributes significantly to climate change
Choosing to avoid meat and eat a plant-based diet has never seemed so virtuous and necessary. Between the intrinsic cruelty of industrial livestock production and livestock’s climate footprint—estimated by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization to be 14.5% of all greenhouse gases world-wide, significantly greater than that of plant agriculture—it has become increasingly difficult to defend the place of meat and animal-sourced foods in our diets. Jonathan Safran Foer, the novelist turned animal-rights activist, may have best captured this thinking in his 2019 nonfiction book, “We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast.” As he writes, “We cannot keep the kind of meals we have known and also keep the planet we have known. We must either let some eating habits go or let the planet go. It is that straightforward, that fraught.”
An essential part of this argument is the proposition that animal-sourced foods, and particularly red and processed meats, aren’t just bad for the planet but harmful for the people who eat them. As the journalist Michael Pollan famously urged in his 2008 bestseller “In Defense of Food,” that is why we should eat “mostly plants.” This has become the lone piece of dietary counseling on which most nutritional authorities seemingly agree. It creates a win-win proposition: By eating mostly (or even exclusively) fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes, while getting our proteins and fats from plant-based sources, we maximize our likelihood of living a long and healthy life while also doing what’s right for the planet.
But is it that simple? A growing body of evidence suggests it isn’t, at least not for many of us.
The other food movement that has won increased acceptance over the past decade is the low-carbohydrate, high-fat ketogenic diet—keto, for short—which has emerged as a direct response to the explosive rise in the incidence of obesity and diabetes. More than 70% of American adults are now obese or overweight, according t
... keep reading on reddit ➡
Sorry if not allowed, but here's an AMA regarding climate change and agriculture, from NASA. I'll be keeping an eye on it for sure.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/p61i3y/askscience_ama_series_hey_reddit_we_are_nasa/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME1]
This bill was referred to the House Committee on Agriculture, House Committee on Education and Labor, and 4 other committees which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.
Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME1] is a member of the House Committee on Agriculture.
[LINK](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2019.102488) Found this paper in the futures journal and figure it is of interest. Summary is that Climate change makes agriculture increasingly susceptible to extremes in temp/rainfall/ect and collapse is likely. The rest of the paper talks about solutions and the idea that a transition to hunter gathering state sooner rather than later will improve the chances for human survival.
What are your opinions on a transition to hunter gather lifestyles/ or fostering hunter gather communities in case of a collapse?
Left an excerpt from the paper here
> Suppose there is a precipitous decline in the human population and our species is once again characterized by isolated bands of hunter-gatherers. Would agriculture eventually return? Probably not. (1) temperatures would be too instable to support major grain crops, (2) currently grown varieties of rice, wheat, and maize could not survive without human help and would disappear, and (3) human hunter-gatherers in the Pleistocene did not “choose” agriculture and would be unlikely to do so in the future (Gowdy & Krall, 2014). 6.2. The environment will recover as the human domination of the Earth ceases. What will be left of nature in the 22nd century and beyond? Probably enough to support a population of human hunter gatherers. Rapid evolution will occur in “new” territories. The recovery of plants and animals will depend on the severity of climate change impacts on the biological world, for example, the amount of inhabitable land after sea level rise and increases in lethal regional temperatures. Given nature’s resilience when human pressure is removed, there is reason to be optimistic. There will be some wildlife slaughter in the period of the contraction—there is a massive number of guns on the planet–but the limiting factor will be ammunition which will run out quickly. Most of it will be used on other humans if history is any guide.
>
>
>
> 7. As Clark et al. (2016 p. 366) put it: “An evaluation of climate change risks that only considers the next 85 years [to 2100] of climate change impacts fails to provide essential information to stakeholders, the public and the political leaders who will ultimately be tasked with making decisions about policies on behalf of all, with impacts that will last for millennia.”
>
> Several widely discussed initiatives could reduce the human impact
