CLIMATE - UN Warns Us to Eat Less Meat and Lay Off Biofuels, or We’re In For It

We’re overconsuming ourselves into environmental oblivion.Harvesting sugar cane in Brazil. Shell.Farming will eliminate forests, plains, and other wild areas nearly the size of Brazil by 2050 around the world if we can’t mend our agricultural, dietary, and biofuel-burning ways. This unsustainable drive for more growing land will result in rising hunger and more frequent riots as food prices increase.That’s the salty prognosis in a new report by s ...

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