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Emma Keary 101147039 ENST 2001A Final Paper Jamie Brownlee December 7, 2021 Food Sustainability, Climate Change, and the Green New Deal in the Global North Introduction The science shows human activity is at an all-time high, amid the current climate crisis, that is being driven by unprecedented changes, posing threats to the survival of humanity and life on earth, with acts towards sustainability leaving risks towards human health, security, and economic growth. Where to prevent future issues, the community needs to develop a WWII-scale transition system to work to build a sustainable economy with 100% renewable energy, agriculture, and conservation. This further demonstrates that the single-largest environmental problem facing sustainability endangerment is climate change. Now, Climate change has been an issue on earth for as long as the earth has been around but started accelerating during the industrial revolution, with the discovery and overuse of fossil fuels, turning to today’s era of the persistent overuse of greenhouse gases. A sustainable action plan has been constantly worked upon, adapted, and regulated by different government agencies, and the federal government, yet resolving an issue as a whole is statistically unlikely, and the potential for environmental sustainability lies in the distribution of power which is why in this paper I will argue that the single-handset most important component to human survival on earth, is currently the greatest contributor to climate change, and the potential to resolve this global crisis relies on the Green New Deal, and international cooperation.
Food Security and the Green New Deal Food security and sustainability is the most important aspect to human survival and environmental sustainability, but at the same time, it’s the greatest contributor to climate change, whereas the United Nations formulated 1/3 of all greenhouse gas emissions arise from the food industry, and within the food industry, the meat sector accounts for 60% of all Greenhouse gases in the industry. It is shown that as of 2019 the largest meat producers, produced more GHG’s than the entire country of France (IPCC, 2020). With this issue in mind, the “green new deal” is a proposed policy to transition the global north economy to address climate change and aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while attempting to tackle a dual issue of social problems, that focus on reducing economic and racial inequality at the same time was following these guidelines, society can aim to be successful go 100% clean energy by 2030 (D’Souza, 2021). As the global north sees the greater impact on the effect of climate change, regions of the global south are seeing the effects caused by northern countries, as when it comes to the food industry distribution the global south do not have access to the same production levels as the global north because there is the potential for some regions south of the equator that are obligated to avoid the meat production and consumption due to religious beliefs. With all regions of the globe either impacting the industry’s or feeling the effects of climate change, most countries are currently participating in intergovernmental organizations to combat climate change, organizations such as the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. International Cooperation Establishing a fundamental consensus amid a global-scale threat on climate change derives from numerous forms and presentations made by climate change researchers and activists
from numerous organizations and countries, thus, requires cooperation and negotiations to sustain humanity’s lifestyle while not impeding on species extinctions and the recent dramatic reduction in biodiversity putting a strain on the food system as a method of sustainability. This is made possible through the corporation known as the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) as its annual reports outline the current involvement of food security and sustainability, while the outcomes that each country experienced due to climate change are acknowledged in such forms and climate summits. The observations that happen to often be acknowledged is the fact that climate change has already been identified as affecting the food security chain, with the current constantly changing weather patterns that make up the increasing temperatures and precipitation levels. These patterns are immediate effects of the global annual temperatures increasing, and according to the IPCC, as stated in claims, “climate-related risks to health”, food security, water supply, and economic growth are projected to increase with global warming of 1.5 °C and increase further towards 2°C” (Mbow et., al, 2019). This demonstrates the urgency for food security as the quality of life for as early as the current generation is feeling effects on the impacts towards the food security chain, thus when it comes to developing methods of tackling this crisis the IPCC, believes it will be impossible to sustain these temperatures levels unless society can adapt the world to produce and distribute food in ways that they can also manage the land. This further allows for the incorporation based on the primary data of the “green new deal” because as Countries around the world are starting to adapt their lifestyles to incorporate more environmentally friendly options, society is reducing the inequalities that linger amongst the global south in the sense that the global north is impacting the effects of climate change will dryland regions, small islands and developing states in Africa and Asia are seeing the detrimental effects. The interconnectedness and the basis of the green
new deal allow for the largest contributor and the most essential aspect of life to bring nations together to regulate a beneficial system successfully or attempt to improve the quality of life, by being able to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gases released annually, and specifically within the food chain. This current method that the IPCC released is a plausible proposition because of the efficiency of the use of resources. This is acknowledged with older methods of climate protection and focusing on different aspects that affect our climate from ocean acidification to ozone depletion to desertification. Putting efforts into multiple projects at a given time, and seeing very little results is not as efficient, or as economically responsible as putting more efforts into one area of focus that is dominantly impacted in the field of climate change and releases of greenhouse gases. International cooperation requires individual countries to input their knowledge and participate in the global effort, countries including Canada, the United States, and the entire European Union. United States Nearly a century before the global catastrophe on climate change came to attention, president Franklin D. Roosevelt administered the New Deal into the United States with one major component aiming to protect agricultural programs, unaware that future presidents of the United States would demonstrate his legislation in a new sense, identified as the “green new deal”, to protect humanity’s ability to survive against the greatest contributor to climate change itself. The federal government is fully invested in fighting the climate crisis in the age of environmental injustice so that the green new deal encompasses the ability to build a renewable energy economy, where this form of legislation is the road map to navigate out of the crisis’ (Aubry, 2020). The current adaptations have made a presence in the current Biden Harris administration in the era on the threat of climate and have aimed to incorporate a plan to combat
both long and short-term effects of climate change on the physical environment and the role humans are incumbent. To push for climate cohesion Biden is working alongside NASA and additional governmental agencies to fight for environmental justice. The plan that is set in motion is to decarbonize the food and agriculture sector, by targeting new technologies to achieve 100% clean energy (Biden Harris, 2020). The United States is the global region that plays the most important role for food security and sustainability, as they are the country that originated the basis for our current belief system in generating common ground on one issue, to conquer to successfully have a future where other generations are not having to compensate because of past generations efforts. The European Union Efforts made my international cooperation amongst several countries has allowed several countries within the European Union to evaluate and recognize their situation and demonstrate the efforts to relieve climate cohesion in their perspective, and have done so by incorporating the green new deal set out by the United States, to form their version identified as the European green deal that encompasses the beliefs of the United States’ green new deal, but is not as ambitious and aims for carbon neutrality by 2050 (Stone, 2021). During so, will allow the European Union’s current legislation to open the food and agriculture sector to allow for recovery amid the global pandemic. Even though the European Union encompasses all European countries excluding the United Kingdom, some countries are leading over others in the fight against climate change and the aim towards food security, such countries include Poland and Denmark. Poland is a unique circumstance in the combat of climate change because the country as an individual has much greater potential to achieve carbon neutrality over other countries, and with
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