Saving The Climate With Soy

“The Yarra City Council is urging residents to do their bit in tackling “the climate crisis” by adopting a vegetarian diet. The council will also look to traditional Aboriginal land management practices to fight climate change and wants to “decolonise” the urban landscape with native plants, some specifically to encourage bats. It is urging residents to “act on the climate emergency” by moving towards a plant-based diet, using active and public transport, “consuming resources consciously”, and shifting their banking and superannuation away from fossil fuel investments — to bring the municipality back from “the precipice of climate and ecological collapse”. It says a major source of emissions which are not captured in the municipal emissions inventory are those associated with food consumed within Yarra. “It is widely understood that a shift to plant-based diets is critical in responding to the climate emergency”, the plan notes.”