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@JRanganathanWRI @WorldResources @venoir Rubbish based fraudulent pseudoscience construct (livestock long part multi produce holistic systems even producing veg/crops same land AND CO PRODUCE LIKE WOOL) nuanced environmentally. All favours global corps driving problems, & bonkers ethics in play
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@JRanganathanWRI @WorldResources @venoir So take palm oil for eg: all cooking/baked products even all cosmetics used tallow butter etc when I was growing up palm oil didn't exist as such. Livestock produced all the fats needed for same land & resources & its palm oil etc driving deforestation. Then you have the massive

@JRanganathanWRI @WorldResources @venoir 10% global emissions caused by shift from wool leather etc to synthetics, need CONSTANTLY replacing because not durable, & leave us reliant fossil fuel heating as not insulating. Add carpets soft furnishings etc all useless not durable that can be provided once again by LIVESTOCK

@JRanganathanWRI @WorldResources @venoir So you should be more concerned about young peoples colossal consumption training shoes eg that need replacing every 6 months, whereas leather shoes last 20 yrs with repairs = 100kg emissions v 35 kgs synth shoes (understimate imho) x 40 smae period = 1.3 Tonnes more emissions pp

@JRanganathanWRI @WorldResources @venoir So contrast eg I had football boots like this, that were my dads and his dad before him, and they got passed to a younger cousin in the 1970s. LEATHER. As are my riding boots similar to these, made 1920s Czech cavalry, and I wore daily for 3 yrs on a livery yard to show

@JRanganathanWRI @WorldResources @venoir how they'd outlast the kids rubber & synth boots (that was 16 yrs ago and I still have mine they'd go through pr synth in 6 months. THIS MATTERS, That coal & oil use China has rocketed in part to produce this crap. Moreover, the industrialization of China has occurred through

@JRanganathanWRI @WorldResources @venoir WEF exploitation of Chinese labour & that massive production of synthetics, ALSO driving China's loss of grasslands at rate of 1.5 million hectares a year making them reliant on soya for feed for pigs & poultry (it certainly ain't cows & sheep) as FAO & even OWID confirm

@JRanganathanWRI @WorldResources @venoir and that is also a threat to China's grassland shared biodiversity. It beggars belief that anybody can look at livestock & see it as threat to biodiversity. 5 millenia pastoral system East Africa for eg, but its industrial AVOCADOS that are the threat not the pastoral peoples.

@JRanganathanWRI @WorldResources @venoir Wherever you go on the planet its the same. MULTI produce 'systems' ( the MOST sustainable textiles/hides of high quality - cultural & economic autonomy for people)in relative harmony with nature sometimes over centuries sometimes millenia.

@JRanganathanWRI @WorldResources @venoir So USA eg look at cattle systems on fairly marginal land so they range hence the warped corruption of their land use, but shared biodiversity (and cultural activity, horses etc). Where are the cougar?

@JRanganathanWRI @WorldResources @venoir My area v the crap hole of Almeria

@JRanganathanWRI @WorldResources @venoir So take the yarns you're spinning (aren't wool for sure -transparent as Emperors new clothes) for WEF elite who HAVE BEEN CAUSING THE PROBLEMS largely industrial monocrops, & alternatives to livestock resources, and as massive fuel use inbuilt obs tech) & stick them you twisters