Reversing Climate Change S2E61: Paul Greenberg on The Climate Diet: 50 Simple Ways to Trim Your Carbon Footprint
There’s a lot of advice on how reduce your carbon footprint. But everything seems to come with a caveat. You can stop eating meat, but do synthetic meats require monoculture? You can boycott Bitcoin, but would that make the grid itself any cleaner? You can drive an electric car, but its battery is made with rare minerals. So, how do you make choices that really move the needle?
Paul Greenberg is the fisherman and bestselling author behind Four Fish, American Catch, and The Omega Principle. His latest book is called The Climate Diet: 50 Simple Ways to Trim Your Carbon Footprint. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Paul joins Ross to explain what we can do to support sustainable fisheries and why we should be ‘picky plant eaters.’
Paul challenges us to be mindful of how many children we add to the planet and shares his argument against building infrastructure that gets us ‘back to normal’ after the pandemic. Listen in for Paul’s insight on electrical versus gas appliances and learn how The Climate Diet can help you make conscious choices in a spirit of kindness to the environment.
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Resources
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe
‘The Wrong Mine for the Wrong Place’ in The New York Times
‘The Plant Prescription’ in Eating Well
Goodbye Phone, Hello World: 60 Ways to Disconnect from Tech and Reconnect to Joy by Paul Greenberg
How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price
Empty Planet on Reversing Climate Change EP105
‘Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever?’ in The New Yorker
‘We Don’t Need More Life-Crushing Steel and Concrete’ in The New York Times