Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century

Michael B. Eisen; Patrick O. Brown

doi:10.1371/journal.pclm.0000010

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Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO₂ emissions this century

Michael B. Eisen ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mbeisen@berkeley.edu (MBE); pat.brown@impossiblefoods.com (POB)

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Integrative Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7528-738X

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Patrick O. Brown

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mbeisen@berkeley.edu (MBE); pat.brown@impossiblefoods.com (POB)

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry (Emeritus), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America, Impossible Foods, Redwood City, CA, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9940-5993

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Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO₂ emissions this century

Michael B. Eisen,
Patrick O. Brown

Published: February 1, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000010
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Posted by pbrown625 on 16 Mar 2022 at 06:28 GMT

This article, on a topic existentially important for the future of our planet, was judged scientifically suitable for publication 2 months before it was actually published. Just sayin...

Competing interests declared: I'm a co-author of this article. The two co--authors of this article co-founded PLOS, with the intention of making the results of scientific and medical research freely and rapidly accessible to scientific community and the world. I and my co-author experienced months of excruciating delays as we tried to share urgently important new scientific insights with the scientific community and the world. Did the months of delay meaningfully change the critical results or conclusions of the article? Read the review chronology and decide for yourself.

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Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO₂ emissions this century

Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO₂ emissions this century

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