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Meat Climate Change


Meat Climate Change

The 2nd Leading Cause of Global Warming

by 
Dr. Moses Seenarine

2016 Xpyr Press. 348 pages
ISBN: 0692641157
Available on Amazon

"An argument for combating climate change through modifying agricultural practices and eating habits."  

"Seenarine (Education and Empowerment Among Dalit (Untouchable) Women in India, 2004) argues for a meatless diet as a key tactic for reducing greenhouse gases, minimizing weather changes, and improving human health. The book provides a dense overview of current climate science and policy, and reviews the impact of rising temperatures on not only the physical environment, but also economics, international relations, and gender politics. The reduction or elimination of meat consumption (referred to here as “carnism”) is held up as the solution to a thoroughly researched, footnoted argument. Seenarine draws on a variety of research to present a solid case for recognizing meat production as a significant factor in greenhouse-gas emissions." - Kirkus Reviews 

"Meat Climate Change is an essential guidebook on the intersection of climate and diet, and related environmental, social and psychological issues. The book covers a wide range of disciplines, and reviews hundreds of research studies." 

The good news is that plant-based diets can stop climate chaos! This must-read, essential guidebook show how, and in addition there are chapters on the critical 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, health under climate change, diet and health, antibiotic resistance, food-borne illness, and zootic diseases like bird flu. The book examines intersectional issues like how climate and diet will impact agriculture, the poor, water, forests, soil, oceans, biodiversity and disease. 

The book provides an excellent background on climate literacy, and great insights into climate politics. Importantly, it explores near term climate change scenarios to the year 2100, and necessary personal, social and policy changes for climate mitigation.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

 

 

 

1 | THE FUTURE IS NOW

 

Why It Matters

1

Invisible Danger

2

Paris and Beyond

2

Social Responsibility

3

Pace of Climate Change

5

Evidence of Poor Presentation?

7

Major Polluters of GHGs

10

Conclusion

11

 

 

2 | MEAT THE FUTURE

 

Introduction

13

Dietary Transformation  

14

Food's Footprint  

15

Food Animals' GHGs

17

Addressing Livestock GHGs

19

Wellness of Plant-based Diet

20

Outline

21

Conclusion

23

 

 

PART I - CLIMATE 101

 

3 | CLIMATE SCIENCE

 

Introduction

25

Climate Literacy

25

What is Climate Change?

26

What is Global Warming?

26

Climate Chemistry

27

CO2 and Historical Temperature

28

Modern Temperature Trends

29

Why Is 1°C Rise a Big Deal?

30

Arctic Sea Ice Trends

31

Climate Women

33

Conclusion

34

 

 

4 | CLIMATE POLITICS

 

Introduction

37

Early Warnings

38

The IPCC

38

IPCC Reports

39

AR5 – WGII

40

Countering 'Skeptics'

42

US Climate Disasters

43

Global Climate Disasters

44

Conclusion

45

 

 

5 | STRUCTURAL DENIAL

 

Introduction

47

Denial Campaign

47

Sociology of Denial

49

Psychology of Denial

50

(Un)Sustainable Development Goals  

52

Conclusion

53

 

 

6 | 2015 PARIS CLIMATE TALKS

 

Introduction

55

Climate (Dis)Accords

55

COP21 Goals  

57

Paris Agreement

59

Climate Mitigation, Inc  

60

Food at COP21

61

Diet at COP21

62

Conclusion

63

 

 

7 | NEOLIBERAL CLIMATE

 

Introduction

65

Over-heated Wealth  

65

Neoliberal Hegemony  

66

US GHG Reduction

67

US Political Climate  

69

US Neoliberal Diet

70

Conclusion

72

 

 

8 | HOW HOT BY 2100?

 

Introduction

75

Future Emission Scenarios  

75

The IPCC's Focus on 2°C Limit  

77

Projecting Minimal Losses and Budget

79

Ending GHGs: AR5 Synthesis

80

IPCC's Conflicts of Interest

80

Conclusion

81

 

 

9 | BEYOND A 2°C SUNRISE

 

Introduction

83

Is the Paris Agreement Doomed?

83

Scenario A1B: +3°C by 2100

85

Scenario A1FI: +4°C by 2100  

86

Scenario A2: +5°C by 2100

86

Missing Positive Feedbacks

87

Burning All Available Fossil Fuels

88

Conclusion

89

 

 

10 | CLIMATE & HEALTH

 

Introduction

91

IPCC on Health  

91

Heat-related Illness

93

Climate and Reproduction

94

Kids Under Climate Stress  

95

Childhood and Severe Weather  

96

Weather Extremes and Women

97

Climate Resilience

98

Conclusion

99

 

 

PART II - COUNTING GHGS

 

 

 

11 | WHAT CRISIS?

 

Introduction

101

A Tale of Two Sources

102

Livestock's Emissions Denial?

103

IPCC and Food Animals

105

INDCs and Livestock

106

Sounding the Alarm

107

Animal Agribusiness Disorder  

111

Conclusion

112

 

 

12 | NUMBERS RACKET

 

Introduction

113

FAO 2006: Livestock is 18%  

114

Livestock Counter-claim

116

FAO 2013: Livestock is 14.5%

117

Emissions Breakdown

118

Cattle: The Biggest Footprint  

119

Cow's Milk GHG Emissions

121

Other Livestock Footprints  

121

Conclusion

122

 

 

13 | OVER-CONSUMPTION CLASS

 

Introduction

125

Urbanization

125

Over-Consumption and GHGs

126

Global Substitution Diets  

128

Class and Diet  

129

Over-Consumption Curse

130

Conclusion

130

 

 

14 | DIET OR POPULATION?

 

Introduction

133

Diet or Over Population?

133

Hungry Masses

134

Hidden Population: Obesity

136

Livestock Triangle

137

Trends in Animal Production

138

Global Carnism

139

US Animal Production

140

Conclusion

141

 

 

15 | MEAT IS NEOCOLONIALISM

 

Introduction

143

Trade Liberalization

143

Transnational Food Corporations  

144

Capitalist Consolidation

145

Breeding Monopolies

147

Feed and Neocolonialism

148

Feed and Displacement  

149

GM Plantations and Monopoly

151

Conclusion

152

 

 

16 | MEAT IS OPPRESSION

 

Introduction

153

Livestock Equals Food Insecurity

153

Meat and Colonialism

154

Climate Justice

155

Racism and Food Deserts

156

Meat the Patriarchy

156

Greenwashing Cruelty: Humane Meat

158

Antibiotics and Superbugs

159

Diet and Social Justice

161

Conclusion

162

 

 

17 | THE POLITICS OF MEAT

 

Introduction

165

Agricultural Policy

166

FAO's 30% Reduction  

168

Factory Farming is Not a Solution

169

Structural Demand  

170

Mitigating Demand

172

GLEAM

174

Conclusion

175

 

 

18 | (IM)PARTIAL ASSESSMENTS?

 

Introduction

177

Life-cycle Assessment (LCA)

178

FAO's Limited LCA

179

Flawed Data Selection

179

Land-use Change (LUC)

180

Other LCAs

181

Vegans Hurts The Planet?

182

Skewing Research

183

Conclusion

185

 

 

19 | FAO'S ANINOMICS

 

Introduction

187

Validation of FAO's Findings  

187

(In)Efficiency of Food Animals

188

GLEAM Excluded Emissions  

190

Other Excluded Emissions

190

Goodland and Anhang's 51% Estimate

192

Conclusion

194

 

 

PART III: MISSING GHGS

 

 

 

20 | SHORT-TERM FORCERS!

 

Introduction

197

Atmospheric GHGs

198

Unbalanced Carbon Cycle  

199

Methane Emissions

200

Methane GWP

202

Nitrogen Emissions

203

Other Non-CO2 GHGs  

205

Conclusion

206

 

 

21 | GOT SINK?

 

Introduction

207

Carbon Sinks

207

Trees, Livestock and CO2

209

Deforestation

210

Soy Protein and Ecosystems

211

Opportunity Cost

212

Conclusion

213

 

 

22 | SOIL NOT CATTLE

 

Introduction

215

Soil Erosion

215

Unsavory Soil Management  

216

Effects of Livestock Overgrazing  

217

Plants and Climate Change

218

Climate and Crop Yields

219

Organic Farming

220

Conclusion

221

 

 

23 | 6TH MASS EXTINCTION

 

Introduction

223

Valuing Biodiversity  

223

Counting Biodiversity  

224

Biodiversity and Livestock  

225

Mass Extinction  

226

Wildlife Removal

227

Wildlife Diseases  

228

Conclusion

229

 

 

24 | WATER FOOTPRINTS

 

Introduction

231

Water Terms

231

Water Crisis

232

Appropriated Water

233

Inefficient Water Use

234

Crops and Water Pollution

235

Conclusion

236

 

 

25 | WASTE POLLUTION

 

Introduction

237

Food Waste  

237

Rivers of Waste  

238

Manure and Disease

239

Dead Zones

240

Fish-kills in One-Month

241

Climate Change and Die-Offs

241

Conclusion

243

 

 

26 | MISSING FISH

 

Introduction

245

Ocean Heat

245

Ocean Acidification

246

Commercial Fishing  

247

Seafood and Enslavement

249

Waste and ByCatch

250

Farmed Fish

251

Conclusion

253

 

 

27 | PANZOOTIC

 

Introduction

255

Regulations to Nowhere

255

Industrial Chicken

256

Chicken Diseases

258

Wet Markets

258

Avian Flu

259

Panzootic

259

Conclusion

261

 

 

28 | HUMAN DISEASES

 

Introduction

263

A Lot of Protein  

263

Altering Gut Bacteria

264

Autism  

264

Bone Fracture

265

Cancer

265

Celiac Disease

265

Chronic Diseases

266

Food-borne Illnesses  

267

Lactose Intolerance

267

Mercury Poisoning  

267

Milk Allergy

268

Meat Allergy

268

Meat Parasites

269

Other Human Illnesses

269

Air Pollution

269

Growth Hormones

270

Nitrates

270

Conclusion

270

 

 

PART IV: CLIMATE-FRIENDLY DIET

 

 

 

29 | PERSONAL CHANGE

 

Introduction

273

Paleo Diet

273

Environmental Denialism

274

Diet Recidivism

275

The 4Ns of Carnism

276

Cognitive Dissonance

277

Consumption Differences

278

Informational Barriers

280

Conclusion

281

 

 

30 | SOCIAL ACTION

 

Introduction

283

Weight, Shame and Diet

283

Decrease in Carnism

285

“Climate-friendly” Diets

286

Social Activism

287

Divestment from Animal Ag

288

Meat Substitutes

289

Conclusion

290

 

 

31 | POLICY CHANGE

 

Introduction

291

Structural Change

291

Public Backlash

292

IPCC Priority

292

Trade Agreements

293

End Subsidies

293

Biodiversity and Human Rights

294

Regulations and Animal Welfare

294

Nutritional Guidelines

294

Procurement

295

Meat Tax

295

Awareness Campaigns

296

Conclusion

296

 

 

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