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Outrage + Optimism

264. What Should I Eat in a Climate Crisis?

Outrage + Optimism

Persephonica

Science, Finance, Energy, Policy, Business, Green, Society, Current Affairs, Climate, News, Planet, Society & Culture, Environment, Climatechange, Nature, Parisclimateagreement, Globalwarming

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

SHOW NOTES: 

In the penultimate episode of our How to Live a Good Life in a Climate Crisis, our hosts talk about food and food systems. How can we enjoy meals while eating responsibly? 

Tom, Paul and Christiana find it difficult to digest our lopsided relationship with food, in which more than two billion people face food insecurity and a third of all food goes to waste. 

The conversation is free-range - the hosts reveal what shaped their own rituals around eating. They look at how humanity’s relationship with food went from trust to anxiety, from abundance to scarcity. They argue the merits of different veggie burgers.

About a third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions is linked to food. To limit global warming while feeding a growing population, every part of the food system - from farming to refrigeration - must become cleaner and more efficient.



NOTES AND RESOURCES

 

Global Nutrition Report

More than a billion people obese worldwide, research suggests

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Drivers of Deforestation

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Outrage + Optimism: Hungry for Alternatives?

How to Grow Your Own Food

Environmental Impacts of Food Production

42% of consumers worldwide think most people will likely be eating plant-based food instead of meat in the next ten years

Implementing land-based mitigation to achieve the Paris Agreement in Europe requires food system transformation

The carbon footprint of foods

How to reduce the carbon footprint of your food

Hope Farm Statement

Fishing boat caught with Illegal 18-mile-long nets



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and I'm Paul Dickinson.

0:01.0

Today we continue our series on how to

0:03.0

our climate crisis.

0:05.0

I'm Tom Rifikarnack.

0:08.0

I'm Christina Figerse.

0:10.0

And I'm Baldigensen.

0:11.0

Today we continue our series on how to live a good life in a climate crisis

0:14.6

and we're talking about food episode in our series on how to live a good life in a climate crisis.

0:32.0

And this week we're going to be tackling another

0:34.1

issue that has been raised repeatedly by this nurse and this is something that I think

0:38.0

really cuts to the heart of how we live at this moment because it's so fundamental to all of us and that is the

0:43.4

issue of food. Food and food systems. Now we should start... You know Tom actually I

0:50.0

think most listeners referred to food when we asked them which topics should we talk about.

0:56.5

I think that's true.

0:57.3

So it really is, it's just so central to all our lives, isn't it?

1:00.5

Yeah, absolutely.

1:01.5

Well, I mean, I mean, it's not often you can say this about a topic, but we actually are food. Like, you know, we're not air travel, and we're not our homes, then we're not our jobs. But I'm made of food, so just to say, say it's me I'm talking about myself here

1:14.0

carry on. Yes. Now we should point out before we begin this

1:18.5

even having this conversation is a privilege isn't it Chris Jana? It is such a luxury to be able to talk about which food

1:26.0

choices should we eat given the fact that although we have less and less people who are dying of hunger, there still is a lot of hunger in the world,

1:35.6

increasingly produced by, sorry guys, by men who are in conflict with each other.

1:43.2

I think that should be apologizing.

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