Mark Kurlansky and Anna Lappé: Plate to Planet

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🗓️ 2 June 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Mark Kurlansky and Anna Lappé are two of the country’s most prolific and influential authors writing about feeding a crowded planet with a destabilized climate. The connection between global warming and the dinner table isn’t always obvious when we go to the grocery store. But our choices about how we put food on our plates, and what we do with the waste, contribute to as much as one third of total greenhouse-gas emissions. How can we continue to feed the planet without destroying it in the process? A conversation about the climate costs of global food production – and some possible solutions. Guests: Mark Kurlansky, Author, "MILK! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas" (Bloomsbury, 2018) Anna Lappé, Author, "Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork" (Bloomsbury, 2011) This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on May 16, 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.4	environment.
0:38.3	On today's program, we go from plate to planet.
0:41.4	Food writer Anna LaPay remembers reading a United Nations report that made the connection
0:46.0	between climate change and livestock production.
0:49.1	At the time, it was about 18% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, which was more than
0:53.3	every single train, plane, and automobile.
0:55.8	And I remember thinking, why isn't everybody talking about this?
0:59.6	Producing the food we eat makes up a big part of our climate footprint.
1:03.8	But Mark Karlanski says we should be looking for solutions, not pointing fingers.
1:08.9	Most farmers and most ranchers and most fishermen do not want to do harm.
1:14.0	They do want to earn a living.
1:17.1	And if their ways of earning a living are doing harm,
1:21.2	you have to convince them that there's a better way to do it.
1:23.7	Mark Kirlansky and Anna LaPay, plate to planet.
1:27.2	Up next on Climate One.
1:32.5	Is the solution to climate change at the end of your fork?
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