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Covid-19 has provided a new environmental sustainability model, now we need to build it

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OPINION: We’re travelling less and using less energy - good news for our efforts to rein in climate change - but we still have far to go. Embracing nature may get us there quicker, writes Dr Andrew Venter Covid19InSA coronavirus

Covid-19 has achieved what decades of climate change talks couldn’t - a significant decrease in our global emissions of carbon dioxide.

Clearly, a combination of interventions is needed to achieve a carbon neutral 2050, which would minimise the destructive effects of climate change. Global meat production grew almost five-fold in the second half of the 20th century and the amount of meat eaten per person doubled. South Africa is a pioneer and leader in the world of regenerative agriculture - not easy given the vested interests of large agriculture businesses in maintaining a business-as-usual approach to farming.

 

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I know it a radical thought, but more and more scientific proof points to humans and their toys having ZERO EFFECT on climate change. The cycles of hot and cold cycles of the earth are a natural phenomenon for millinea, cow farts and battery cars are of no consequence.

CO2 is plant food. Decreasing available plant food is not good for the environment.

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