Henry Dimbleby on how the food system is killing you
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The Importance of Methane in Climate Change
I get the impression from your book that methane is a bit of a red herring when it comes to climate change. If that is true, in what way is the food system, a leading cause of climate change? So I mentioned earlier that the animals we weigh 20 times much as all wild animals. And on the kind of environment to climb it front, you can basically look at it like this,. for pretty much the whole of human civilization until late 18th, 19th century. We produced everything we needed from the action of sunlight on the land. It was just required really to produce food. In fact, 2% of greenhouse gas emissions are fertiliser. This country is greater going
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