Tag Archives: climate change

Episode 159. Dealing With Those Who Won’t See What’s Happening

This is the World Organic News for the week ending the 11th of March 2019.

Jon Moore reporting!

Decarbonise the air, recarbonise the soil!

This week I’m responding to a question. A few weeks back at the community garden we were in a group discussion about the impacts of climate change. Three percent of Tasmania had been ravaged by bushfires, large parts of the Australian mainland were and are under drought and some of those areas in Queensland had just been hit by a drought breaking weather event so large 100s of thousands of cattle drowned due to the suddenness and extent of the rainfall.  Continue reading →

Episode 158. Cows aren’t the enemy & let’s reward those doing the job!

This is the World Organic News for the week ending the 4th of March 2019.

Jon Moore reporting!

Decarbonise the air, recarbonise the soil!

We begin this week with a piece from Business Insider entitled: Cows are getting a bad rap and it’s time to set the record straight: Giving up meat won’t save the planet by Frank M. Mitloehner.

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As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action. Advocates urge the public to eat less meat to save the environment. Some activists have called for taxing meat to reduce consumption of it.

A key claim underlying these arguments holds that globally, meat production generates more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector. However, this claim is demonstrably wrong, as I will show. And its persistence has led to false assumptions about the linkage between meat and climate change.

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Episode 155. Drought Morphs into Killer Flood and a Defection from the Dark Side.

This is the World Organic News for the week ending the 11th of February 2019.

Jon Moore reporting!

Decarbonise the air, recarbonise the soil!

We begin this week with a couple of stories. One of loss and devastation and one of apparent mind changes  which illustrates that we might be waking up from sleepwalking into climate change disaster.

The first is from the ABC in Australia entitled: Queensland floods have likely killed hundreds of thousands of cattle, farmers facing ‘catastrophic’ losses. Continue reading →