sustainability 12
- Beef and lamb are the most land-hungry and climate-damaging farm products there are.
- Raising yields on land already farmed is what keeps farming from taking more of the wild world.
George Monbiot
Guardian columnist and environmental writer. He republishes every column at monbiot.com with its original date, which makes him one of the few public writers whose reversals can be read against the pieces they reverse.
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What George Monbiot says most about
energy 6
- World oil supply is close to its peak and will decline while demand keeps rising.
- Nuclear power is the wrong technology for cutting carbon: efficiency and renewables can do the job without it.
climate change 4
- The claim that grazing cattle and sheep are good for the climate is the most effective form of climate denial now in circulation.
- Beef and lamb are the most land-hungry and climate-damaging farm products there are.