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Ocean Robbins dedicates his life educating others about building a healthier and a more compassionate world.
How Food Can Help Save Our Planet
What you put on your plate could shape the future of climate change BY OCEAN ROBBINS Author, speaker, co-founder and CEO of Food Revolution Network, living in the mountains of Santa Cruz, CA. FOODREVOLUTIONNETWORK
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f there’s one common problem that every inhabitant of the Earth is currently facing, it’s climate change. Those two words sound innocent enough: “climate change.” But what’s happening isn’t just climate change, it’s climate chaos. And as crazy as things have gotten, unless we change course, we are barely seeing the tip of the iceberg of what’s coming. Unprecedented heat waves in unlikely places, unprecedented flooding, droughts and wildfires; the first rainfall on the peak of Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time in
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literally ever — and a truly alarming new scientific report on the now-unavoidable impact of global warming on our world, we can’t keep acting as if this isn’t an urgent matter of life or death. The problem can seem so daunting, and our individual power can feel so limited. Most of us don’t want to stop driving our cars, heating our homes, or buying the manufactured goods that keep us alive and comfortable. The good news is, we all share one thing that can have a significant impact on climate change: the food we eat.
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By making small adjustments to your daily food choices, you can help counteract the biggest environmental threats we’re facing today. It’s not the whole story, but you can take a real bite out of the problem. Earth’s temperature has risen about one degree Celsius since the mid to late 19th Century and scientists estimate that over the next 20 years, the global temperature is expected to reach or exceed 1.5 C of warming. What’s causing this rise in temperature? Well, we are. According to a new United Nations-commissioned scientific