3/30/2023 0 Comments Apocalypse cow documentary![]() This is gutsy environmental investigative journalism that won’t shy away from delivering hard truths, whilst rigorously reporting the facts. In what the team believes is the world’s first live investigative documentary, RIVERCIDE aims to combine the best of the live stream formats that we’ve all become familiar with during lockdown, and take them to the next level in a pioneering new format. Singer Charlotte Church is collaborating with poet Owen Sheers to compose an original song for RIVERCIDE, which Charlotte will perform live on the show. In the meantime, we should do all we can to minimise the land needed for farming, such as eating less meat, stopping turning foods like palm oil into biofuels and embracing genetically modified supercrops.UK: Thursday 24 th June 2021 – RIVERCIDE – a live investigative documentary on the shocking state of Britain’s rivers, hosted by leading environmental journalist George Monbiot (author of Feral, Out of the Wreckage, presenter of Apocalypse Cow, Guardian columnist) and directed by Grierson-winner Franny Armstrong (McLibel, The Age of Stupid) – will be streamed live on Wednesday 14 July, 7pm BST via a call to action on how the public can help save their local river. But the potential rewards are so immense that we should be pouring vast sums of money into finding out. The bottom line is that it is still far from clear if farm-free foods can save the planet. However, it would also eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution from the farms that are replaced, so it might still be a win overall. ![]() Putting huge amounts of renewable energy into producing hydrogen to make farm-free food could thus undercut other efforts to limit climate change – the other great threat to wildlife. So clean hydrogen is a limited resource and should be used wisely. We don’t have renewable electricity to spare, and half the energy is lost when making hydrogen. But we don’t produce enough hydrogen for this, and 99 per cent of it is made from fossil fuels, so using it won’t reduce emissions. There are grand plans to use hydrogen for everything from heating homes to powering aeroplanes. Read more: Destruction of nature is as big a threat to humanity as climate change Solar Foods says its process is economically feasible, too, and that it will be able to beat the price of soya, the cheapest protein widely used for animal feed. In fact, a company called Calysta is already producing animal feed from microbes fed on methane – but the methane comes from natural gas. That is several times better than photosynthesis. Solar Foods says it can convert electricity into food – via hydrogen – with an efficiency of 20 per cent. ![]() By contrast, solar panels convert around 17 per cent of the light energy falling on them into electricity. Less than 0.5 per cent of the light energy falling on a field gets turned into food. This will be true for lab-grown meat as well, if made with nutrients obtained from plants. ![]() Almost all the food we eat is derived from photosynthesis. And organic farming is even worse than the conventional kind.įood production is also inefficient. ![]() Habitat loss is the single biggest killer of wildlife, for instance, and it is largely due to farming.įarming and land clearance also produces a third of all greenhouse gas emissions. Read more: Fixing a flaw in photosynthesis could massively boost food productionīut we do need to do something about the impact of our food and even a small reduction in farmland could make a big difference. ![]()
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