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Aaron's avatar

I think shorter wheat was an important part of the Green Revolution

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Climate Action Now's avatar

Borlaug's transformative work touched on that, I believe.

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Ecosystem Member's avatar

It is absolutely bonkers that we are trying to vaccinate cows to lower methane emissions rather than just eat less beef. We've lost the plot.

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Climate Action Now's avatar

I agree we definitely need to eat less beef - I wrote the article and I'm vegetarian - but we also should take any opportunity to reduce GHG emissions.

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Ecosystem Member's avatar

By artificially changing the natural processes of another animal? What gives us humans the right to do that?

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Samrat P's avatar

"What gives us humans the right to do that? " I think many (not most) environmentalists never ask this question. They continue living their lives of privilege (travel, emissions heavy food habits, big houses with associated heating/cooling footprint etc.) and simply point fingers at those with higher footprints than them or with less nuanced understanding of climate issues.

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Samrat P's avatar

I couldn't agree more Rick.

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