Global climate inaction
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week’s IPCC report on the state of the world’s climate looks very much like their earlier reports on the subject. The document cautiously expresses a picture of a future with greater climate extremes. Activists are frustrated by the lack of action. We look at why the scientific message is often hampered by politics.
Fish could provide micronutrients to the world poor, but as we’ll hear this would need a major shift in commercial fishing practices globally.
Baby bottles from thousands of years ago suggest Neolithic people gave animal milk to their children.
And when did the Sahara develop? New findings in deposits from volcanic islands provides some evidence.
The number of vegans is on the rise in many parts of the world, with many people swearing by the health benefits of a plant-based lifestyle. But is a vegan diet really better for your health? Is there any evidence to show that vegans are likely to live longer?
And what about the new, highly processed meat analogues becoming increasingly available in supermarkets and restaurants menus? They look, feel and taste just like meat products but what affect are they having on our health? To find out more, we talk to the experts and join listener Samantha in following a vegan diet.
(Image: Greta Thunberg. Credit: AFP/Getty Image)
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| 0:23.0 | money you have power. Join me, Jamie Bartlett, as the hunt for the missing crypto queen continues. |
| 0:29.5 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. The Science Hour starts here from the BBC World Service and Greta |
| 0:35.8 | Thunberg's angry climate message to the UN is still ringing |
| 0:39.6 | in our ears. |
| 0:40.9 | We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of |
| 0:48.5 | eternal economic growth. How dare you? |
| 0:52.9 | One solution touted for the climate emergency is a vegan diet, which, as the crowd science team will be hearing later, is thankfully becoming more common. |
| 1:02.5 | You can get any vegan product you like, whereas before people used to have to carry a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter around with them all the time, just in case. |
| 1:10.7 | In half an hour on CrowdScience, Anna and Jacketeer will be getting tips on staying healthy |
| 1:14.6 | on a vegan diet. Before that, on Science in Action with me, Rennon, peas, we're also getting |
| 1:20.2 | some dietary tips on the value of fish in tackling the worldwide shortage of micronutrients. |
| 1:26.4 | But this needs fairer sharing of the fish harvested |
| 1:29.2 | around the world. They could be ending up on your dinner plate, but I think the concern is that |
| 1:35.2 | actually it's being fed to fish that you then eat or to the livestock that you then eat. So it's |
| 1:41.6 | even more wasteful. We've the origins of the Sahara Desert, |
| 1:46.2 | and somehow these have something to do with the origins of bottle feeding babies. So they might have |
| 1:52.0 | two feet or four feet. A lot of people have said to me they look just like kangaroos, of course. |
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