America’s food system is driving climate change, and ‘the problem is getting worse’

It’s clear that our reliance on fossil fuels is contributing to climate change around the world. But about one-third of our climate problem is related to our approach to agriculture.

In his book “We Are Eating The Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate,” author Michael Grunwald highlights that factors like beef production, food waste and damaging ecosystems by using large swaths of land for agriculture all play a role in climate change.

He told KCUR’s Up To Date that while rolling back fossil fuels is a very big problem, we at least understand the solutions. With our food system, it is much harder to address…

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