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探索绿色一带一路倡议下，首个完全剥离煤炭、以植物基生态体系为核心的海外农业与能源转型案例。
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For the planet
The single biggest lever an individual has.
A 2018 Oxford study of 38,700 farms in 119 countries found that moving to a plant-based diet is the single biggest action any one person can take to reduce their environmental impact.
34%
Global emissions from food systems
Crippa et al., 2021
80%
Farmland used by animal agriculture
Poore & Nemecek, 2018
~80%
Amazon deforestation from cattle
Yale School of the Environment
–49%
Emissions cut by a vegan diet
vs Western average
Food systems produce between 26% and 34% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, depending on how the boundary is drawn. Livestock alone occupies about 80% of global farmland while providing only 18% of calories and 37% of protein. It is, by any honest accounting, the most inefficient way we could feed ourselves.
The consequences reach beyond climate. Cattle grazing is the single largest driver of Amazon deforestation. Feed crops for animals are the largest driver of soy expansion. Manure runoff and antibiotic overuse are two of the largest freshwater-quality problems on Earth. Moving toward plants is not a fringe environmental preference — it is arithmetic.
Curated films
Films that make it concrete
Documentaries, investigations and short films from advocacy groups and independent filmmakers.
Documentary trailerForks Over Knives — Official Trailer
The documentary that made the plant-based case to millions.
Source: Forks Over Knives
Short filmGlass Walls — narrated by Paul McCartney
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, McCartney once said, everyone would be vegetarian. This is what he meant.
Source: PETA
Documentary trailerCowspiracy — Official Trailer
The environmental case against industrial animal agriculture, in 90 seconds.
Source: Cowspiracy
Documentary trailerDominion — Official Trailer
An unflinching look at how humans exploit non-human animals across every industry.
Source: Dominion Movement
ExplainerMeat: The Future
A calm, data-rich explainer on the environmental math of eating meat.
Source: Kurzgesagt
InvestigationThe Dairy Industry, in 5 Minutes
What the milk carton doesn't show.
Source: Mercy For Animals
The common questions
Common questions
Poore-Nemecek showed the opposite: transport is a small share of food emissions. Even the lowest-impact beef is environmentally worse than the highest-impact plant alternative.
The four pillars
Other doors into the same argument
People come to plant-based living from very different doors. The reasons differ; the destination converges.
For the animals
They are the reason a plate matters.
More than 80 billion land animals — and trillions of aquatic ones — are killed for food each year. Most never see the sun.
Read more →For the planet
The single biggest lever an individual has.
A 2018 Oxford study of 38,700 farms in 119 countries found plant-based eating is the single biggest thing one person can do.
Read more →For your health
The evidence has been converging for decades.
Adventist Health, EPIC-Oxford, PREDIMED, EAT-Lancet: plant-eaters live longer, with less heart disease and diabetes.
Read more →For each other
A fairer way to share a finite planet.
A third of the world's grain is grown to feed farmed animals. Redirected to humans, it could nourish billions more.
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