There’s about ten million beef and dairy cattle in NZ. Each one produces the same faecal load as about 14 people. So that’s equivalent to 140 million people. It’s just too much faeces and urine for the rivers lakes and groundwater to handle. #halvetheherd
If - as is highly likely - our civilization collapses & our children face an impossible future, it won’t be because we lacked the ideas, the money or the ability to stop it from happening.
It will be because our leaders chose to take us there. And we let them.
BREAKING: UN Secretary-General says the world's biggest carbon emitters must start drastically cutting emissions within the next 36 weeks to avert climate catastrophe 🧵
We have a climate disaster looming and cyclists dying and @NZStuff decides on a story like this!?
Cycleways have proven social, economic and environmental benefits. Do better!!
Now that economic growth has doomed us to the end of the planet as we know it at 1.25°C of global warming (the Cryosphere has tipped, sea level rise is already unstoppable), climate scientists say there's one alternative economic theory which may yet limit the damage: DEGROWTH.🧵
Maybe if the IPCC report had slapped someone at the Oscars more people would be interested in the fact our civilization is in free fall & our planet will soon be unlivable.