Brutkey

anlomedad
@anlomedad@climatejustice.social
Figure 1 from the paper showing a global map with all land highlighted that are currently in use for animal agriculture. Caption: Distribution of carbon in potential vegetation in areas of present-day animal feed croplands and pastures combined for each 5 arcmin grid cell. Colour corresponds to the product of land area presently under cultivation multiplied by the potential vegetation carbon density, minus the quantity presently stored in agricultural vegetation. Brazil and Ecuador, Mexico and East USA stand out, then all of central Europe and UK with Ireland, tropical and equatorial Africa, and China. 146360fa3e4ab9b8.png Figure 3 from the paper is a bar chart with whiskers. Since their focus was on dietary shifts within a continued civilisation, they modelled the CO2 impact from 3 different diets. Business as usual emits about 100Gt by year 2050. The "EatLancet" diet sequesters 300 Gt. The vegan diet removes the quoted 358 to 743 Gt. Caption: "Cumulative changes in terrestrial carbon from three dietary scenarios in 2050: BAU, ELC and VGN. Scenarios do not include abated emissions associated with agricultural production. Positive CO2 indicates a loss of ecosystem vegetation carbon and emissions to the atmosphere; negative indicates CO2 removal via vegetation growth. Error bars are 95% confidence intervals, reflecting various estimates of potential vegetation and distributions of cropland removal from low- and high-carbon biomes." acc36c1ffa4c30c9.png a876500f7f63eec8.png