Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air: Change Your Diet: The Easiest Way to Help Save the Planet

Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air: Change Your Diet: The Easiest Way to Help Save the Planet

by S L Bridle
Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air: Change Your Diet: The Easiest Way to Help Save the Planet

Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air: Change Your Diet: The Easiest Way to Help Save the Planet

by S L Bridle

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Overview

A quarter of the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change come from food. In Food and Climate Change without the hot air, Sarah Bridle details the carbon footprint of the food we eat, from breakfast to lunch, from snacks to supper. She breaks down the environmental impact of each food, so we can see where the emissions are highest and where we can make sustainable food choices.

With this knowledge, we can make changes to our diet – e.g. eating more locally grown produce and introducing meat free days. This will reduce the greenhouse gas emissions so damaging to our planet and probably be healthier for us, too.

Food and Climate Change without the hot air considers:

  • How to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that come from food – currently 25%.
  • What effect the food we eat has on the environment of our planet.
  • How climate change will affect the food we will eat in the future.
  • How consumers can play their part in reducing food-based carbon emissions.

Bridle looks at popular breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner options, such as tea and coffee, eggs, cheese and chicken sandwiches, salad, pizza, baked potatoes, chocolate, nuts, soft drinks, alcoholic beverages, steak and fries, fish suppers, Spaghetti Bolognese and more.

She calculates the greenhouse gas emissions of those meals, breaking down the different ingredients and cooking methods, which makes it easy to compare different options within the same meal. This takes into account all the gases that contribute to global warming: carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide (gCO2e). Bridle also dives into the important topic of food waste and gives valuable tips to avoid leftovers.

Inspired by the author's former mentor David MacKay (Sustainable Energy without the hot air), Food and Climate Change is a rigorously researched discussion of how food and climate change are intimately connected. In this ground-breaking and accessible work, Prof Sarah Bridle focuses on the facts so that they speak for themselves. The book is highly illustrated in full color throughout, making it an attractive read, as well as an inspiring one.

It shows how anyone can reduce the climate impact of their food. It also suggests how the food system must change, with:

  • Incentives for farmers to switch to more efficient, climate-friendly technologies.
  • Food labeling to show a product’s ‘food miles’ and how it has been produced.
  • Research into non-traditional production methods.
  • How to waste less food and use all the water, energy and nutrients used in its production more wisely and sustainably.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780857845030
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 09/03/2020
Series: without the hot air , #8
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 1,129,232
Product dimensions: 7.40(w) x 9.15(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Sarah Bridle is a professor at Manchester University. She became committed
to a change in food policy because of her children and her concern for their
future. She divides her research time between food-related climate change and astrophysics.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 Introduction 1

I Breakfast

2 Tea and coffee 18

3 Sugar 23

4 Milk 25

5 Bread and toast 30

6 A bowl of cereal 34

7 Eggs 36

8 Breakfast summary 40

II Lunch

9 A cheese sandwich 44

10 Ham, pork and bacon 50

11 Salad 57

12 Pizza 62

13 A baked potato, or fries 66

14 Beans and other legumes 70

15 Yogurt and cream 75

16 Lunch summary 77

III Snacks

17 A piece of fruit 82

18 Chocolate and sweets 89

19 Nuts 92

20 Potato crisps / chips 97

21 Soft drinks and juices 99

22 A piece of cake 104

23 Snacks summary 106

IV Evening meal

24 Spaghetti bolognese 110

25 Chicken curry tikka masala 117

26 Rice 123

27 Fish and chips 126

28 Veg 130

29 Beer or wine? 135

30 Dessert 138

31 Evening meal summary 141

V Looking ahead

32 Food emissions for a whole day 146

33 Leftovers and food waste 150

34 Health 156

35 Vegan and other climate-motivated diets 161

36 How can governments help? 166

37 Food as part of the solution 174

38 Making the change 180

Appendixes

A Climate change 186

B Impacts of climate change on food 194

C Food in the future 197

Bibliography 201

Web links 201

References 206

Index 225

Acknowledgements 243

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