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How food is causing the apocalypse and how we can fix it with George Monbiot

The Happy Pear Podcast

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The Impact of Grants on the Climate Crisis

We're using 28% of land to grow cattle on we could that could be forest or that could be wetlands which would absorb lot more carbon and give a lot more stability to the whole earth's natural systems. are displacing the ecosystems which could stop earth systems collapse So essentially the food system is the greatest cause of of Impact on the current climate situation. The European Union's common agricultural policy, which is an absolute catastrophe And it appears to be unreformal Unreformable because every five years the EU says well, yes We are recognising there are some problems with the common agricultural policy so they make it even worse than it was before.

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