Are we eating our way into climate crisis? The global food system is responsible for between 21 and 37 percent of annual emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Roughly half of the world’s land surface is used for agriculture, and 96 percent of the world’s mammalian biomass is either human... Continue Reading →
The Guardian’s new series of articles on fossil fuel companies’ culpability for the climate crisis is entitled “Climate Crimes.” Is this too extreme a title? After all, Exxon and the others were just working within our legal, economic, and political systems to provide a commodity we all use every day. They may have known that... Continue Reading →