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Best of: The world’s food system needs a radical rethink

Zero: The Climate Race

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The Green Revolution and the Carbon Opportunity Costs

Food production as a whole is responsible for roughly one third of all our carbon emissions. If we don't tackle that, it will exceed by between two and three times the amount of greenhouse gases we can safely produce just the food system alone. But there's an even bigger issue, which is the carbon opportunity costs. And so this concentrated agricultural system that's feeding the world right now, how exactly is it contributing to climate change?

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