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Letter: Cutting animal-based food can be done much sooner

Published 10 March 2021

From James Rand, Bristol, UK

I am amazed at the lack of ambition expected of individuals when addressing climate change 20 February, p 30. In your review of Bill Gates’s book, you mention UK government advisers thinking the population could reasonably be expected to cut meat and dairy consumption by a fifth by 2050. I would say that by tonight isn’t an unreasonable time frame, not 30 years hence!

Issue no. 3325 published 13 March 2021

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