Eating Our Way to Extinction - the Science

Animal agriculture is the leading cause of biodiversity loss, the water crisis, nutrient pollution, deforestation, disruption of water cycles, and global warming So are we on the verge of Extinction ? Watch the complete episode to know the exact answers...... Gerard Wedderburn-Bisshop worked as a Principal Scientist with Queensland Government Natural Resources, using satellite data to monitor three decades of vegetation cover and broadscale deforestation. He left government in 2010 to co-author the Beyond Zero Emissions’ Land Use Plan, a plan to take Australia’s land use and agriculture emissions beyond zero, and works pro bono with NGO World Preservation Foundation, focusing on deforestation, land degradation and biodiversity loss, and is on the Zero Emissions Byron Land Use Advisory Panel and is a Director of Replant Byron. Recently he co-authored a book for the Eating Our Way To Extinction documentary, and has produced a series of explanatory videos on the climate impact of animal agriculture and co-authored a report on the environmental impact of Australian beef production.