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Dan Connors
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“The rest goes to livestock or biofuels. The same is true for soy. We could simply repurpose that food, or repurpose that land to grow different crops. This all sounds very simple in principle but getting people to change behaviours is difficult. I don’t think that enough people will make this change based on the ethical pull alone. If we’re to change how people eat across the world we’re going to need some new, tasty, meat-like products”
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
“The global population growth rate – the change from one year to the next – peaked a long time ago. In the 1960s it was growing at more than 2% per year.17 Since then, this rate has more than halved, to 0.8% in 2022.”
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
“Economic growth is not incompatible with reducing our environmental impact”
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
“Air pollution is one of the world’s biggest killers. Researchers estimate that it kills at least 9 million people every year. That’s 450 times more than die in natural disasters in most years.”
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
“Between 2013 and 2020, Beijing’s pollution levels fell by 55%.6 Across China as a whole, they fell by 40%.”
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
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