Episode 76: The True Environmental Cost of Global Food Production

Let us start with a number that I want you to hold in your mind for the rest of this section. The global food system is responsible for somewhere between twenty-six and thirty-four percent of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions on the planet. That is not a typo. More than a quarter of everything humanity does to warm this planet can be traced back to how we grow, process, transport, and dispose of food. And yet, when most people talk about climate change, they talk about cars and factories and airline flights. They rarely talk about what is sitting on their dinner plate.