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There was a Tweet floating around at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic joking that the climate crisis should hire the Coronavirus’s publicity team. It was a popular Tweet: both funny and true. Since then, in the wake of all that’s happened, the humor has dissipated, but the sentiment still remains.
While we’ve all been understandably distracted by a global pandemic crisis, the momentum in the fight against climate change has waned in a sense, while the problem persists stronger than ever. So during Earth Month, we need to come together to resume that fight. In particular, we must remember one of the greatest contributors to impending climate chaos, one that’s lacked the appropriate collective panic: the overwhelming impact of modern animal agriculture on our land, water, and air.
Finding the best ways to do good.
In 2017, climate scientist Kimberly Nicholas coauthored a study trying to answer this question: What are the most effective changes you can make to your lifestyle if you want to reduce your carbon footprint and help save the planet?
She found that for individuals in high-emitting countries, choices like flying less, driving less, and eating less meat are all helpful. But there’s another lifestyle choice that is much more effective over the long term: having fewer kids.
Yet in her new book,
Under the Sky We Make, Nicholas says that if you really want to be a parent, you should go ahead and have kids anyway.
Carol Throckmorton and Carolyn Howe
Special to the Iowa City Press-Citizen
Earth Day 2021 has come and gone, and Earth Month is nearly over. Let us not just return to life as usual, but rather commit to integrating into our everyday lives the many actions we can take personally to preserve our planetary home.
Defining climate change as an existential threat is an understatement. Addressing this threat will require courageous commitment and bold action. President Joe Biden has set forth an aggressive goal of a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. To achieve this goal, every one of us will need to do everything we can, every day.
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As April is Earth Month, GWIC thought it would be a great time to talk to one of the people who works in E&C and also to protect our natural resources and environment. Michelle Beistle is the as Chief Ethics, Compliance & Privacy Officer at The Nature Conservancy. Michelle talks about the similarities and the differences that she has encountered moving into a non-profit, as well as her excitement about working in a mission-driven organization. She also talks about how COVID and the social justice movement have impacted TNC, and how See more +
Akron Beacon Journal
More farmers protecting environment
For many, Earth Month in April is a time to inspire awareness and focus on improvements to our environment. As a Northeast Ohio farmer, protecting the land and water where I farm is a year-round commitment that I take seriously.
Recently there have been concerns about the role Ohio’s agriculture community plays in protecting our environment, specifically as it relates to water quality. Ohio’s legislators and farmers have a long history of working together to identify workable solutions that protect the environment and address water challenges.
Additionally, Ohio’s agriculture, conservation, environmental and research communities recently came together to establish the Ohio Agriculture Conservation Initiative (OACI), which was formed to create a recognized farmer certification program.