“For now, let’s look at the **things we need to do to cut the climate impact of our food**. 1. “**Eat less meat and dairy**, especially beef 2. ”Adopt the **best and most efficient farming practices** we can 3. ”**Reduce overconsumption** 4. ”**Reduce food waste** 5. ”**Close yield gaps** across the world "Do these five things listed here and **we can build a low-carbon food system**. “If we manage to do all of them, we could reduce our net emissions from food to zero. **It’s not that we would emit nothing** – we would still have some emissions from fertilisers, and small amounts of livestock – but **this could be offset by all the land we would free up, the forests that would grow back, and wild grasslands that would be restored**. ([Location 1780](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=1780))" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[deforrestation]], [[fertilisers]], [[climate-change]], [[food-emissions]], [[food-production]], [[poverty]], [[just-transition]], [[offsets]], **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]