Good moos: cows could help the climate
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The Economist
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🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Cows produce far more milk in rich countries than in poor ones. Our correspondent explains how beefing up bovine productivity could feed more people and reduce planet-heating emissions. Why Spain is the best-performing rich-world economy of 2024 (11:28). And remembering Harold Palmer, the Northumbrian hermit (17:12).
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| 0:45.8 | I'm your host, Rosie Bloor. |
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| 1:01.0 | Spain is known for its sun and sangria, less so for its budgetary and fiscal acumen. |
| 1:06.1 | But according to the economist, it may actually be the best-performing rich world economy of 2024. |
| 1:09.7 | And people often say they long for silence and stillness. |
| 1:14.1 | Harold Palmer made it his lifetime's pursuit, building himself a home, a chapel and a bell tower in the wilds. |
| 1:21.7 | The intelligence remembers the life of a Northumbrian hermit. |
| 1:31.7 | Thank you. of a Northumbrian hermit. But first... |
| 1:37.3 | I recently travelled to a farm in Kenya. |
| 1:47.4 | Robert Guest is a deputy editor of the economist. |
| 1:51.2 | And I met herdsman there called Philip Soronka, |
| 1:53.6 | who practices a traditional kind of cattle farming. |
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