{"id":45422,"date":"2021-11-22T16:48:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=45422"},"modified":"2021-11-22T16:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:48:29","slug":"i-calling-eu-lawmakers-put-climate-heart-agricultural-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2021\/11\/22\/i-calling-eu-lawmakers-put-climate-heart-agricultural-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I am calling on EU lawmakers to put climate at the heart of agricultural policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a Saturday and, at first glance, a climate march like many others: hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Paris demanding the climate emergency be taken seriously.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was among them. Once again, I was urging politicians to implement these abstract and far-away goals of \u201cemission reductions\u201d and \u201ccarbon neutrality\u201d.<\/p>\n

Since I first took to the streets, plenty of climate promises have been made. But until they are followed through with concrete policies, those promises will remain empty words.<\/p>\n

On my way home from the protest, I experienced this gap between promises and action when stopping to buy food for dinner.<\/p>\n

In the fruit and vegetable section of my local store, I have the choice between regional produce, and fruit and vegetables that are available all year around and have been cultivated in large greenhouses in Spain, Italy, or Greece before they were wrapped in plastic and transported thousands of kilometers by truck.<\/p>\n

While I am conscious of the carbon footprint of those tomatoes and peppers and the poor working conditions of the employees producing, picking and packaging them, one criteria matters most in my decision of what to buy: they are a lot cheaper.<\/p>\n

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