畜牧业与气候危机Livestock & Climate Change part2

SupremeMasterTV:Do you think that our government should be doing more as regards to letting people know about how they can act as individuals to help with our planetary crisis?

Prof Brook: I think leaving agriculture out of the equation sends the wrong signal because it exempts a sector of society from making greenhouse gas cuts, when in fact every sector of society needs to contribute, so its just moving the burden to other parts of society. And its not rightfully cknowledging the impact, the environmental impact that rearing animals have on Australia. People often talk about climate change as having a long-term impact and what its going to do by the end of the century. Yet were observing impacts such as the loss of Arctic summer sea ice, an expansion of tropical weather systems, very intense droughts in sub-Saharan Africa and indeed in Australia.

The sort of impacts we predicted for 20, 30, 50, 100 years off are occurring now.

And theres also a great risk that were going to cross what are known as tipping points in US system, where we start to get runaway climate change, or at least climate change thats greatly accelerated by changes to the Earth system.

Were at a crucial social tipping point and a crucial environmental tipping point right now. Now is the time to take action. Its urgent.
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