The Comforting Lie of Climate-Friendly Meat
The Comforting Lie of Climate-Friendly Meat
The industry insists that meat’s problems can be solved with technical fixes. We’ve seen this before.
This strategy seems to be working—at least when it comes to convincing policymakers and philanthropists. Technical solutions to livestock’s climate impact have emerged as the new orthodoxy in climate and agriculture circles, repeated by USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry, the government of Ireland, the new FAO report, and nine-figure philanthropic endeavors funded by groups like the Bezos Earth Fund. It doesn’t hurt that, as the British environmental journalist George Monbiot so aptly puts it, the “livestock industry’s political connections are umbilical.”
technofix
technohopium
greenwashing....
I would say astroturfing, but
astropasturing
sounds more fitting.