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Nutrition for the benefit of the planet
What to eat to save the planet and ourselves
What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Researchers are trying to figure out what that looks like around the world.
More than 2 billion people are overweight or obese, mostly in the Western world. At the same time, 811 million people are not getting enough calories or nutrition, mostly in low- and middle-income nations. Unhealthy diets contributed to more deaths globally in 2017 than any other factor, including smoking2.
But if everyone, on average, ate a more plant-based diet, and emissions from all other sectors were halted, the world would have a 50% chance of meeting the 1.5 °C climate-change target5. And if diets improved alongside broader changes in the food system, such as cutting down waste, the chance of hitting the target would rise to 67%.
Politically impossible since too much money is in big food, especially meat.
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