nicholasdcarter.bsky.social
📚 Research Fellow | Project Drawdown (Food, Agriculture, Land) 🌳 Director of Environmental Science | Game Changers 2 🌎 Co-founder iffs.earth
👤 Joined on 21 November 2023
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@nicholasdcarter.bsky.socialI’m so lucky to work at the best climate organization on Earth. It’s an honor to serve this team and the organization we have become in the last few years! Thank you!
Show PostI've spent a lot of time thinking and writing about "ultra-processed foods" the last few years. Now, I've summed up the state-of-the-debate up with a brief explainer in @us.theconversation.com. theconversation.com/the-science-...
Show Post🌏 Happy #WorldFoodDay! This year’s theme, “Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow,” is a reminder that building a food system that can provide safe, nutritious food for all—now and for generations to come—will require new ideas and more ways to produce the foods people love 🧵
Show PostOf course, acting on climate requires major reductions in both fossil fuels and agricultural land use simultaneously. Food systems represent one of our best opportunities to do the latter.
Show PostGrowing crops comes at a huge opportunity cost to native ecosystems, and raising pasture for cattle is especially costly in areas that would otherwise be forests. The opportunity to use that land instead for natural carbon sequestration massive, enough to sequester years' worth of fossil fuel CO2
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