👩🏽‍🎓 Fight climate change = Educate girls + eat less meat

“To fight climate change, OSU researchers push novel plan: Educate more girls, eat less meat.”

“A team of scientists led by Oregon State University researchers has devised a new climate change scenario that offers different thinking on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: equity and more education for girls and women, moving towards equalizing the gross domestic product around the world and a radical change in diets and farming practices, among other goals. …

Better education for girls and women would lead to better opportunities for women in the workforce and to lower fertility rates, slowing down the Earth’s population growth, the researchers show in their analysis. A smaller population would, in turn, use fewer resources and land.

Wide adoption of plant-based diets, regenerative farming practices and more efficient fertilizer use are also key assumptions in the scenario.

‘Eating plants instead of meat and dairy is one of the most significant environmental acts we can do multiple times each day,’ Ripple said.”

Source: OregonLive.com ~ To fight climate change, OSU researchers push novel plan: Educate more girls, eat less meat.