… the following quote from Inside Science (click here about 12min 40secs into programme);
it’s one of those things that on the surface you think more people, more emissions, more resource demand, food demand, whatever it is but when you look at the numbers, we produce enough food in the world now to feed everyone, we produce enough to feed more people, it’s just inequity of supply and access. And one of the things with emissions is that …10%, the richest people in the world, produce half of the emissions and half of the people in the world produce 10% of the emissions. So that simple sort of population thing is simple, it’s simplistic,
Well, have another look at this piece from me on Monday…
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This is one of the programmes I always make a point of listening to. In the discussion about making all our agriculture organic, one question I would have asked is: “Was the assumption that all of the food produced was for human consumption?”
and guess what? most of us (the UK population) are in that 10%, which is why we should reduce the number of children we have, as well as cut our consumption drastically
m parry – guess what? You can cut your footprint today without any input from government or anyone else…