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Should Mother Earth be in Hospice Care?

From Sailesh Rao, ClimateHealers.org
May 2023

The question for us now is whether Mother Earth should really be in hospice care? Is she truly on a death spiral and therefore, there is no point in trying to transition to a socially just, plant-based, ecosystems restoration economy that can heal the climate from the current socially unjust, animal-based, resource extraction economy that is heating the climate and destroying the planet?

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The factual evidence is overwhelming. It appears that sometime in the 1990s, during the early deliberations over the ecological crises roiling us today, the UN and the governments of the world decided to put Mother Earth in hospice care instead of addressing the crises with scientific integrity. That is, instead of coming clean on the four deadly dietary deceptions that were already in all school science text books at that time, these institutions doubled down on these deceptions with six additional, equally deadly, climate deceptions.

The question for us now is whether Mother Earth should really be in hospice care? Is she truly on a death spiral and therefore, there is no point in trying to transition to a socially just, plant-based, ecosystems restoration economy that can heal the climate from the current socially unjust, animal-based, resource extraction economy that is heating the climate and destroying the planet?

On the contrary, the factual evidence is equally overwhelming that with honest emissions accounting, Mother Earth is still sequestering about 90% of human CO2 emissions, despite all our depredations. Therefore, she continues to have a zest for life and it would be premature for humanity to put her in hospice care and condemn her to an early grave.

Here’s a compilation of the Ten Food Climate Deceptions and I welcome your feedback:

The Ten Food Climate Deceptions and their Inconsistencies

Deceptions are partial truths that are intended to mislead, usually to protect and promote vested interests. Deceptions can be detected by identifying inconsistencies in the data sources and/or in the way the data is presented. The United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate change reports (ipcc.ch) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Guidelines (myplate.gov) are the sources of our scientific understanding of food and climate, where we have identified the following ten food climate deceptions, making visible the enormous Cow in the Room.

  1. The Narrowed Timeline Deception
  2. The Methane Averaging Deception
  3. The Airborne Fraction Deception
  4. The Natural Cycle Deception
  5. The Opportunity Cost Deception
  6. The Opportunity Benefit Deception
  7. The Protein Deception
  8. The Calcium Deception
  9. The Omega-3 Deception
  10. The Carb Deception

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