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Cargando... We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfastpor Jonathan Safran Foer
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Klare Leseempfehlung! Zum Ende hin wird es etwas langatmig, wenn er zum psychologischen Teil kommt und versucht zu erklären, warum nicht alle Menschen schon mitmachen. Aber von den Fakten her, und vom Denkanstoss, absolut lesenwert. Ich werde jedenfalls ab sofort noch öfter auf Fleisch und vor allem auf andere tierische Produkte verzichten! ( ) I found the book hard to relate to despite having so many familiar touch points. Ok, don’t eat meat, but doesn’t that just make it cheaper and invite the next person to eat it? The author does not discuss the many ways one could tune meat eating into culture, only one and only one main view to the climate problem. Most of the ideas are first order, the complexity of the problem is not emphasised. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Reason to stop eating meat (well, would’ve been that back in the 70s … now, well, it’s reason to accept the blame, to feel the guilt for our demise … ): “Globally, humans use 59 percent of all the land capable of growing crops to grow food for livestock.” (p79) “One-third of all the fresh water that humans use goes to livestock, while only about one-thirtieth is used in homes.” (p79) “Seventy percent of the antibiotics produced globally are used for livestock, weakening the effectiveness of antibiotics to treat human diseases.” (p79) “Trees are 50 percent carbon. Like coal, they release their stores of CO2 when burned.” (p92) “Forests contain more carbon than do all exploitable fossil-fuel reserves.” (p92) “The cutting and burning of forests is responsible for at least 15 percent of global GHGs per year. According to Scientific American, ‘By most accounts, deforestation in tropical rainforests adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than the sum total of cars and trucks on the world’s roads.'” (p92) “About 80 percent of deforestation occurs to clear land for corps for livestock and grazing.” (p92) “in 2018, Brazil elected Jair Bolsonaro as president.” (p93) “Bolsonaro campaigned on a plan to develop previously protected swaths of the Amazon (i.e., deforestation).” (p93) “It has been estimated that Bolsonaro’s policy would release 13.2 gigatons of carbon—more than two times the annual emissions o the entire United States.” (p.93) “Animal agriculture is responsible for 91 percent of Amazonian deforestation.” (p93) * Another interesting bit: “Every day, 360,000 people—roughly equal to the population of Florence, Italy—are born.” (p80) * And another: “Just one hundred companies are responsible for 71 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.” (p150) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: This program is read by the author. In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. The task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselves??with our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. We have, he reveals, turned our planet into a farm for growing animal products, and the consequences are catastrophic. Only collective action will save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eat??and don't eat??for breakf No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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