@calaurence.bsky.social
Another world is still possible | Previously at twitter.com/calaurence Fwiw, I don't use AI to craft my posts 🩵
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14.08.2025 03:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What's the main cause of #deforestation, resultant #habitatloss, #globalheating and the #sixthmassextinction?
Clue:
- It's not feral cats.
- It's not urban expansion.
- It's not even logging.
Answer: Animal agriculture. This talk explains www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6XN...
Here's the source: www.gov.uk/government/p...
08.08.2025 04:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Figure 3. Benefits of a global shift to a plant-based (flexitarian) diet: Diagram shows flexitarian diet components (mostly plants) and its benefits for climate, biodiversity and human health, reducing noncommunicable disease burden and risk of zoonoses.
Essential reading from Wegner et al in @thelancet.com. Once again, the science is clear: a global shift to predominantly plant-based diets is urgently needed to safeguard environmental & public health doi.org/10.1016/j.ec....
#GlobalFoodSystem #AnimalAgriculture #Deforestation #Zoonoses #OneHealth
To trigger positive tipping points that help eliminate the 25% of greenhouse gas emissions linked to food, farming, and deforestation, we call on policymakers to adopt trade policies that catalyse sustainable commodity production and to shift public money from the livestock sector to plant-based proteins. This will also help limit the risk of tipping points in the biosphere – including dieback of the Amazon rainforest – and can liberate land for regenerating nature.
An urgent call for COP30 leaders from global-tipping-points.org/conference-2....
25% of GHGs from food echoes Poore & Nemecek. IPCC cites 21-37%, ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/chapter-5/; new work suggests up to 60%, doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adb7f2. In all cases, supporting a #plantbased shift is vital 🌱
A brilliant interview. John's insights are heart-wrenching and uplifting at the same time, for the same reasons: they elucidate the ethical nightmare of animal oppression and its true remedy - which lies far from the bucolic fantasies spun by apologists like Pollan.
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https://www.weplanet.org/post/q-a-with-george-monbiot-it-is-time-we-became-food-numerate#:~:text=Agricultural%20sprawl%20is%20a%20far%20greater%20threat%20to%20the%20planet%20than%20urban%20sprawl.
Pls read @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on agricultural sprawl: urban pales by comparison when you realise all built-up areas use just 1% of habitable land, while agriculture takes up almost half, mostly (80%) for animal ag.
14.05.2025 02:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This July '24 commentary by a retired scientist-turned-activist in Aotearoa feels even more relevant as Trumpism plays out & Europe slides right. CA and AU's 2025 elections offer hope, but this seems inevitably temporary with #EarthOvershoot and #Moloch at work.
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"analyses suggest that UPF categories, including meat and animal products and sweetened drinks, tend to be associated with an increased risk of adverse health outcomes. In contrast, UPF categories including vegetarian alternatives were not associated with adverse health outcomes."
"SACN has already concluded in previous risk assessments that consumption of excess energy (calories), saturated fat, salt, free sugars and processed meat is linked to poor health outcomes. And that higher consumption of fruit and vegetables, wholegrain foods and fibre reduces health risks."
Latest in a string of evidence exonerating #plant-based alternatives. The #UPF charge against mock meats is just another beat-up. Extracts from the UK's Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition highlight health harms of processed animal meat, not #alt-proteins.
And ofc #wfpb gets a big tick! 🌱
Yes. @tobiasleenaert.bsky.social made this exact point in a beautiful post last week. I think many of us need this message atm more than ever 💙 tobiasleenaert.substack.com/p/refusing-n...
02.04.2025 04:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0And I enjoyed listening. Interesting that host @fluidroid.bsky.social got you to run through most of the #carnistic #4Ns commonly used to justify eating [some] animals: normal, natural, necessary, nice. Succinct and powerful responses explaining why they don't hold up. 💚
24.03.2025 04:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Interested in this too: also noting that it's *death rates* - so could be same (or even higher) cancer rates, but more life-saving screening and advances in treatment...
24.03.2025 00:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, worry if you are human - or any of the other species we co-evolved with on the only planet known to support life... Not forgetting the vast impacts already being felt by the most vulnerable, human and non...
24.03.2025 00:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#FishFarming causes untold suffering for the captive fish, decimates aquatic wildlife & creates hell for neighbouring communities (see www.noff.au), yet AU's PM is propping it up. Join the public outcry by signing the @australiainstitute.org.au petition: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_salmon_f...
19.03.2025 07:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excellent coverage of the urgent need for a #PlantBasedTreaty by @aljazeera.com.
#dietchangenotclimatechange #climateandnature #noplanetb #planetaryboundaries
Alighting here with relief
16.11.2024 09:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
