[P2P-F] Fwd: The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change

Fri Aug 9 10:15:22 CEST 2019

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Jonathan Latham <jrlatham at bioscienceresource.org>
Date: Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 6:36 PM
Subject: The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
To: <BSR-PROJECT-ELIST1 at gn.apc.org>

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Published today (Aug 8th, 2019) in *Independent Science News*.

*The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change*
by Ronnie Cummins

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/environment/the-9-lie-industrial-food-and-climate-change/

*Synopsis:* As the result of a joint calculation, the USDA and the US EPA
have begun claiming that US agricultures’ contribution to the climate
crisis represents 9% of total national green house gas emissions. The size
of this number is hugely important in terms of where to search for climate
solutions. According to the author these estimates are smokescreens and the
true number is approximately 5-6 fold higher. In other words, *most* US
greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture and the food sector. This
low-balling is very convenient for the commercial interest groups that
benefit from the wasteful status quo of the US food system.

The author is director and co-founder of the Organic Consumers Association.

Please consider sharing this article.

Yours sincerely
Jonathan

Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
The Bioscience Resource Project,
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA

Websites:
www.independentsciencenews.org
www.poisonpapers.org
www.bioscienceresource.org

Tel: 1-607-319-0279
Twitter and Facebook: @Biosrp
Please sign on to our mailing list:
https://www.independentsciencenews.org/subscribe/

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits
and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic
society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society
constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of
our country.”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda

_______________________________________________
BSR-project-elist1 mailing list
Info and options:
https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/bsr-project-elist1
To unsubscribe, email bsr-project-elist1-unsubscribe at gn.apc.org

-- 
P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net  - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net

Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss:
http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens;
http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ourproject.org/pipermail/p2p-foundation/attachments/20190809/1757cdbc/attachment.html>