• WhiteHawk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As usual, the title is clickbait. It’s not “eating meat” that produces 4 times more greenhouse gases, it’s a high-meat diet. Big difference that is conveniently left out of the title to get more clicks.

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      1 year ago

      For anyone interested, high-meat diet was defined as >100g meat per day.

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      1 year ago

      Here is the IPCC take on it:

      https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba7357

      To have any hope of meeting the central goal of the Paris Agreement, which is to limit global warming to 2°C or less, our carbon emissions must be reduced considerably, including those coming from agriculture. Clark et al. show that even if fossil fuel emissions were eliminated immediately, emissions from the global food system alone would make it impossible to limit warming to 1.5°C and difficult even to realize the 2°C target. Thus, major changes in how food is produced are needed if we want to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.