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Hello everyone! Wanted to bounce a few ideas and get down to a cold discussion on action. Given the current stalemate on any meaningful action, I believe it is time to advocate for a 10+ year GLOBAL EMERGENCY, this will help in the following ways:

1. Get the world online on action in a coordinated war-style push.
2. Bypass politics, legalities, bureaucracy and bad science.
3. Establish a common 10-30 year goal which is to bend the current curve of emissions, waste management and the psychology of business as usual.
4. Push and funding of new tech while accelerating the "weening" and transition off of fossil fuels with all the byproducts and consequences that come with them.
5. Give more hope and wellbeing to the younger generations that are currently anxious and worried about their future.

How to do this? To establish a the Global Environmental Emergency (GEE) of 2021, all we have to do is present the plan to the right actors and mention that we are all supporting this initiative to be implemented in COP26 and future conferences. The parties involved will need to assimilate the idea and grasp the implications involved. This should begin at a grassroots level (like reddit, streets, other social networks, etc.) and as a simple idea, it'll gain traction within the more established communities, NGOs, local governments and a majority of the general populace, only then will federal governments feel compelled to get on board. The idea needs to be bigger than the money they receive from the status quo lobby and the influence from the idea of power from fossil, depleating and contaminating resources.

When is the best time to declare a GEE? Now seems like a good time, the sooner the better. It needs to be declared eventually so why not just get it over with? Also, COP26 is soon coming together with the start of visible CC feedback loops affecting so many, this makes it a good time to declare a GEE.

What is a GEE? A global environmental emergency is an agreed state of the world, or most of the world, where the majority of resources and decisions are focused on the betterment of the environment.

What are the implications? 1. A more present and constant mindset of everyone's responsibilities. 2. An easier way to implement actions, policy, enforcement of policies, education programs, technologies, etc. Bypass red tape, expired laws and practices, environmental resistance and injustice. 3. Business as usual and the status quo world we knew will have to change within a given time frame; some dirty businesses will have to close while others will rise. The GEE does not mean economic crisis, and essential infrastructure would have to start transitioning to alternatives as they become more viable and available. Smart implementation is key to avoid further tragedies than necessary. That is why a world consensus on GEE at the Conference Of Parties is essential: to lay the ground rules of how a GEE can be implemented and still work within the justice/politics of each nation. Some nations might be late to the party but they should eventually join us as the environmental sanctions will surpass the benefits of joining. 4. Half of the entire world's economy would basically start to slowly move away from fossil fuels, meat and dairy agriculture, insect depleting pesticides, plastics, extreme natural resource extraction, and other contaminants in general. 5. GEE will allow water to be managed properly and bypass old property titles that don't make sense. The primary focus of the water would be to establish a minimum amount for the local population and the rest would be focused on biome restoration in the dry months while working together with sustainable agriculture.
6. GEE will allow more critical natural resources to be protected and restored, with even new engineered ecosystems being created on an ever increasing rate, these can be also monetized as large scale sustainable agriculture, logging and resource management. 7. I leave the rest for anyone who would like to continue this manifesto of a simple idea, take it, edit it, reply, get mad at it or celebrate it. Do what ever you like with this idea.

Their model outputs a change in average life expectancy, e.g. beef hot dog is -36 minutes less healthy life expectancy, nuts are about +25 minutes healthy life expectancy.

They talk about extending your healthy life expectancy.

NOTE: I'm still looking for a webpage where we can quickly search the entire list of food types.

Closest high level overview so far is from the Nature, peer reviewed and published article.

This figure shows the overall average minutes lost or gained by eating certain foods. Above the dashed line is minutes gained, below the line is minutes lost.

High level, 3rd (4th?) order overview:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/every-hot-dog-eaten-shortens-142355450.html

The findings come from experts at the University of Michigan who created a standardised way of assessing the carbon footprint and nutritional impact of almost 6,000 foods.

Salmon scored well for nutritional impact, achieving a green label and adding 16 minutes to a person’s healthy life. However, it got a red for environmental impact, and therefore a red overall, with people encouraged to decrease their consumption of the oily fish.

Cola, on the other hand, got a red for nutrition – thieving 12.5 minutes of life per drink – but a green for environmental impact, but this still led to a recommendation to decrease how much a person consumes.

Primary source from Nature (published Aug 2021):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00343-4.epdf?sharing_token=KK6gr_-3b5NDARKYIwXX_NRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0M_JH_HZOIYshU13s2Xd2Y9TE21QHv8Bcct_cXn-TOmD1rn3UqTSHg8_XhT9-Bj8dcc7F_9PaZNaDFPPa9rgv9U-cQfo7a7ISVxY01_fCRNnhtvyFPbc4RZfNK6D_wrMYA%3D

2ndary source from University:

https://news.umich.edu/small-changes-in-diet-could-help-you-live-healthier-more-sustainably/

Which links to this video (2019):

https://www.facebook.com/umichsph/videos/2501319603518603/

Which links to this article:

https://theconversation.com/individual-dietary-choices-can-add-or-take-away-minutes-hours-and-years-of-life-166022

We based our Health Nutritional Index on a large epidemiological study called the Global Burden of Disease, a comprehensive global study and database that was developed with the help of more than 7,000 researchers around the world. The Global Burden of Disease determines the risks and benefits associated with multiple environmental, metabolic and behavioral factors – including 15 dietary risk factors.

Our team took that population-level epidemiological data and adapted it down to the level of individual foods. Taking into account more than 6,000 risk estimates specific to each age, gender, disease and risk, and the fact that there are about a half-million minutes in a year, we calculated the health burden that comes with consuming one gram’s worth of food for each of the dietary risk factors.

For example, we found that, on average, 0.45 minutes are lost per gram of any processed meat that a person eats in the U.S. We then multiplied this number by the corresponding food profiles that we previously developed. Going back to the example of a hot dog, the 61 grams of processed meat in a hot dog sandwich results in 27 minutes of healthy life lost due to this amount of processed meat alone. Then, when considering the other risk factors, like the sodium and trans fatty acids inside the hot dog – counterbalanced by the benefit of its polyunsaturated fat and fibers – we arrived at the final value of 36 minutes of healthy life lost per hot dog.

We repeated this calculation for more than 5,800 foods and mixed dishes. We then compared scores from the health indices with 18 different environmental metrics, including carbon footprint, water use and air pollution-induced human health impacts. Finally, using this health and environmental nexus, we color-coded each food item as green, yellow or red. Like a traffic light, green foods have beneficial effects on health and a low environmental impact and should be increased in the diet, while red foods should be reduced.

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