According to the Eat-Lancet Commission, about 15 million deaths can be avoided every year and people worldwide can change healthy, mainly plants-based diets in agricultural emissions, which brought scientists worldwide to review the latest data of food in human health, climate change, biodiversity and people working and living.
Their conclusion: Without adequate changes in the food system, the worst effect of climate change would be unavoidable, even if humans successfully switch to cleaner energy.
“If we are not far from the volatile food path we today, we will fail on the climate agenda till date. We will fail in the agenda of biodiversity. We will fail on food security. We will fail on so many routes.”
In 2019, the first report of the Commission was considered a “really monumental landmark study” for a desire to take food system reforms, while factoring in human and environmental health, said the director of the Wellness and Neutrition in the Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement.
Major points from the latest report:
A ‘Planetary Health Diet’ may cause 15 million deaths every year
The first brick-language report proposed a “planetary health diet” focused on grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and beans. The update states that to improve their health even while reducing global warming, it is a good idea for people to serve each of animal protein and dairy per day while limiting red meat once a week. This applies to people especially in developed countries that unevenly contribute to climate change and have more alternatives about foods eaten.
Dietary recommendations were based on data about the risks of diseases. Type 2 diabetes And heart disease, not environmental criteria. Researchers said that human and planetary are in health alignment.
Rockstrom stated that it may seem “boring” for an analysis to reach the same conclusion after six years, but he finds this assurance because food science is a fast -moving area with many big studies and improves analytics.
Eat Rockstrom stated that one of the deepest personal options that can create a person, and “the health component touchs everyone’s heart,” Rockstrom said. It is complex to deal with global challenges, what individuals can do, it is relatively straightforward, such as reducing meat consumption completely eliminated it without reducing it.
,People Associates they eat with identity ”and strict diets can scare people, but even help small changes, said Emily Cassidi, a research colleague with climate science non -profit project. He was not involved with research.
Our food options can push the planet beyond a tipping point
Researchers looked beyond climate change and greenhouse gas emissions for factors including biodiversity, land use, water quality and agricultural pollution – and concluded that the biggest criminals are the biggest criminals in pushing the food system. Earth On the verge of threshold for a living planet.
The report is “super wider” in its purview, Kathleen Meerigan said, a professor of food systems Aerizona state university Whoever was not involved in research. He said that it is enough to show how farming and labor practices, consumption habits and other aspects of food production are added – and it can be replaced, he said.
Meerigan said, “It seems that we have given this slow awakening for the role of food”.
Changing diets around the world alone can lead to a 15% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, as the production of meat, especially red meat, requires release of a lot of planetary-warming gases, researchers concluded. The report states that increase in crop productivity, reduction in food waste and other improvements may hit 20%.
Cassidi said that if the population of high and medium-income countries was limited to serve beef and lamb for a week of service, as recommended in this latest Eat-Lancet Report, they could reduce emissions equal to the annual emissions of Russia.
Involvement of justice in a uneven world
Meanwhile, the report concludes that almost half of the world’s population is being denied enough food, a healthy environment or decent work in the food system. Ethnic minorities, indigenous people, women and children and people in the fields of struggle all face specific risks and access to their human rights.
With the UN climatic dialogue around the corner in November, Rockstrom and other researchers hop that leaders in countries around the world will include scientific approaches about the food system in their national policies. Otherwise, “takes us in a direction that makes us more and more delicate,” he said.
“I mean in terms of food supply, but in terms of health and also in terms of stability of our environment,” Rockstrom said. “And it is a recipe to make societies weak and weak.”
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