How Our Food Choices Drive Environmental Change

Food production is one of the main forces driving global environmental change — here are some ways we can help keep our planet safe.
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In partnership with Eat Forum, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and the IKEA Foundation.

Our food choices have huge environmental implications. So is it even possible to feed the world without irreversibly harming the planet?

Line Gordon is a professor of sustainability science at Stockholm University and the director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, an international research center on resilience and sustainability science. Gordon says that food production is one of the main forces driving global environmental change. Scientists have identified planetary boundaries that we must live within in order for the planet to remain a safe place for humans. Gordon says that while it is possible for all of us to live within these boundaries, the path we’re on right now is not sustainable.

While traditional production and consumption is bad for the environment, there are ways to produce and consume meat that aren’t as detrimental and we need to make changes—but we need to be careful with how we make changes. Just because something may be ‘climate healthy’ doesn’t mean that it is necessarily good for you. While quite a bit has to happen on the production end, what consumers want to spend their money on tends to drive production. Gordon says there are some things we can do as consumers to help change the way our food is produced, but at the end of the day, we also need to change how we consume our food.

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