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Richard Waite

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Good article and excellent that it mentions the burning of fossil fuels several times as the primary cause of climate change. Worth noting, too, that the #2 cause of climate change is agriculture/land use/food systems, at ~1/4-1/3 of annual human-caused GHG emissions depending on how you count it.

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Agricultural production is about 1/8 of total emissions. When you add in forestry and land-use change (much caused by agricultural expansion) you are up to 1/4 of total emissions. Adding in fossil CO2 emissions for energy use in food supply chains & methane from landfilled food waste gets to 1/3.

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