We need to talk about your starving grandchildren.

From Just Have a Think.

You might not want to think about this one, but our scientists tell us if we carry on the way we are now, the global food system will have completely broken down by the time a child born today hits retirement age. The good news is, it can be solved. The question is, can we be bothered?

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Mike Berners-Lee : There is no Planet B

Updated edition published January 2021

Our World in Data Charts :
1. Employment in agriculture
https://ourworldindata.org/employment-in-agriculture

2. GHG emissions from food
https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions-food
https://ourworldindata.org/food-ghg-emissions
https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector

3. Environmental impacts of food
https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-emissions-supply-chain

4. World calories map
https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply

5. Plant based diet impacts
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

6. Land use for agriculture
https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture

7. Do we really only have 60 harvests left??
https://ourworldindata.org/soil-lifespans

Carbon Brief – Food waste articles

In-depth Q&A: What food waste means for climate change

Food waste makes up ‘half’ of global food system emissions

Rapid phaseout of animal agriculture : Eisen and Brown 2022
https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000010

UN Food and Agriculture Organization
https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/new-fao-report-maps-pathways-towards-lower-livestock-emissions/en

Comparable GHG emissions from animals in wildlife and livestock-dominated savannahs : Manzano et al 2023
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-023-00349-8

Knepp Estate / Wilding book and film
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jun/06/semen-flasks-farming-couple-rewilding-knepp-isabella-tree