Frustrating title - clearly no one single action can save the planet - and reporting: the potential 3% drop in GHGs mentioned is only for a reduction in meat consumption (far from elimination) & certainly not for a vegan diet!
But yes, plant-based diets offer huge cobenefits!
Good article below, stressing the urgency of our situation! But I feel a top cause of, and solution to, the polycrisis, has been omitted: our food choices! (As stressed for instance in this recent article: )
A 🧵 with evidence on that:
1/25 drawdown.org/news/insights/…
The article mentions “the most rigorous scientific assessment of this existential threat” - a key report on tipping points (). That report mentions diets 64 times!
2/25global-tipping-points.org
In the report, a table of ‘Positive tipping points’ lists ‘Shifts to more plant-based diets’ as potentially reducing global emissions by 12%, in second place behind ‘Shifts to solar PV/wind + storage’.
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