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ENST 2001A
Final Paper
Jamie Brownlee
December 7, 2021
Food Sustainability, Climate Change, and the Green New Deal
in the Global North
Introduction The science shows human activity is at an all-time high, amid the current climate crisis,
that is being driven by unprecedented changes, posing threats to the survival of humanity and life
on earth, with acts towards sustainability leaving risks towards human health, security, and
economic growth. Where to prevent future issues, the community needs to develop a WWII-scale
transition system to work to build a sustainable economy with 100% renewable energy,
agriculture, and conservation. This further demonstrates that the single-largest environmental
problem facing sustainability endangerment is climate change. Now, Climate change has been an issue on earth for as long as the earth has been around but
started accelerating during the industrial revolution, with the discovery and overuse of fossil
fuels, turning to today’s era of the persistent overuse of greenhouse gases. A sustainable action
plan has been constantly worked upon, adapted, and regulated by different government agencies,
and the federal government, yet resolving an issue as a whole is statistically unlikely, and the
potential for environmental sustainability lies in the distribution of power which is why in this
paper I will argue that the single-handset most important component to human survival on earth,
is currently the greatest contributor to climate change, and the potential to resolve this global
crisis relies on the Green New Deal, and international cooperation.
Food Security and the Green New Deal Food security and sustainability is the most important aspect to human survival and
environmental sustainability, but at the same time, it’s the greatest contributor to climate change,
whereas the United Nations formulated 1/3 of all greenhouse gas emissions arise from the food
industry, and within the food industry, the meat sector accounts for 60% of all Greenhouse gases
in the industry. It is shown that as of 2019 the largest meat producers, produced more GHG’s
than the entire country of France (IPCC, 2020). With this issue in mind, the “green new deal” is a
proposed policy to transition the global north economy to address climate change and aim to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions while attempting to tackle a dual issue of social problems, that
focus on reducing economic and racial inequality at the same time was following these
guidelines, society can aim to be successful go 100% clean energy by 2030 (D’Souza, 2021). As the global north sees the greater impact on the effect of climate change, regions of the global
south are seeing the effects caused by northern countries, as when it comes to the food industry
distribution the global south do not have access to the same production levels as the global north
because there is the potential for some regions south of the equator that are obligated to avoid the
meat production and consumption due to religious beliefs. With all regions of the globe either
impacting the industry’s or feeling the effects of climate change, most countries are currently
participating in intergovernmental organizations to combat climate change, organizations such as
the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. International Cooperation
Establishing a fundamental consensus amid a global-scale threat on climate change
derives from numerous forms and presentations made by climate change researchers and activists
from numerous organizations and countries, thus, requires cooperation and negotiations to
sustain humanity’s lifestyle while not impeding on species extinctions and the recent dramatic
reduction in biodiversity putting a strain on the food system as a method of sustainability. This is
made possible through the corporation known as the intergovernmental panel on climate change
(IPCC) as its annual reports outline the current involvement of food security and sustainability,
while the outcomes that each country experienced due to climate change are acknowledged in
such forms and climate summits. The observations that happen to often be acknowledged is the
fact that climate change has already been identified as affecting the food security chain, with the
current constantly changing weather patterns that make up the increasing temperatures and
precipitation levels. These patterns are immediate effects of the global annual temperatures
increasing, and according to the IPCC, as stated in claims, “climate-related risks to health”, food
security, water supply, and economic growth are projected to increase with global warming of
1.5
°C and increase further towards 2°C” (Mbow et., al, 2019). This demonstrates the urgency for food security as the quality of life for as early as the current
generation is feeling effects on the impacts towards the food security chain, thus when it comes
to developing methods of tackling this crisis the IPCC, believes it will be impossible to sustain
these temperatures levels unless society can adapt the world to produce and distribute food in
ways that they can also manage the land. This further allows for the incorporation based on the
primary data of the “green new deal” because as Countries around the world are starting to adapt
their lifestyles to incorporate more environmentally friendly options, society is reducing the
inequalities that linger amongst the global south in the sense that the global north is impacting
the effects of climate change will dryland regions, small islands and developing states in Africa
and Asia are seeing the detrimental effects. The interconnectedness and the basis of the green
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new deal allow for the largest contributor and the most essential aspect of life to bring nations
together to regulate a beneficial system successfully or attempt to improve the quality of life, by
being able to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gases released annually, and specifically
within the food chain. This current method that the IPCC released is a plausible proposition
because of the efficiency of the use of resources. This is acknowledged with older methods of
climate protection and focusing on different aspects that affect our climate from ocean
acidification to ozone depletion to desertification. Putting efforts into multiple projects at a given
time, and seeing very little results is not as efficient, or as economically responsible as putting
more efforts into one area of focus that is dominantly impacted in the field of climate change and
releases of greenhouse gases. International cooperation requires individual countries to input
their knowledge and participate in the global effort, countries including Canada, the United
States, and the entire European Union. United States Nearly a century before the global catastrophe on climate change came to attention,
president Franklin D. Roosevelt administered the New Deal into the United States with one
major component aiming to protect agricultural programs, unaware that future presidents of the
United States would demonstrate his legislation in a new sense, identified as the “green new
deal”, to protect humanity’s ability to survive against the greatest contributor to climate change
itself. The federal government is fully invested in fighting the climate crisis in the age of
environmental injustice so that the green new deal encompasses the ability to build a renewable
energy economy, where this form of legislation is the road map to navigate out of the crisis’
(Aubry, 2020). The current adaptations have made a presence in the current Biden Harris
administration in the era on the threat of climate and have aimed to incorporate a plan to combat
both long and short-term effects of climate change on the physical environment and the role
humans are incumbent. To push for climate cohesion Biden is working alongside NASA and
additional governmental agencies to fight for environmental justice. The plan that is set in
motion is to decarbonize the food and agriculture sector, by targeting new technologies to
achieve 100% clean energy (Biden Harris, 2020). The United States is the global region that plays the most important role for food security and
sustainability, as they are the country that originated the basis for our current belief system in
generating common ground on one issue, to conquer to successfully have a future where other
generations are not having to compensate because of past generations efforts. The European Union
Efforts made my international cooperation amongst several countries has allowed several
countries within the European Union to evaluate and recognize their situation and demonstrate
the efforts to relieve climate cohesion in their perspective, and have done so by incorporating the
green new deal set out by the United States, to form their version identified as the European
green deal that encompasses the beliefs of the United States’ green new deal, but is not as
ambitious and aims for carbon neutrality by 2050 (Stone, 2021). During so, will allow the
European Union’s current legislation to open the food and agriculture sector to allow for
recovery amid the global pandemic. Even though the European Union encompasses all European
countries excluding the United Kingdom, some countries are leading over others in the fight
against climate change and the aim towards food security, such countries include Poland and
Denmark. Poland is a unique circumstance in the combat of climate change because the country as an
individual has much greater potential to achieve carbon neutrality over other countries, and with
already smaller farms in the country maintaining the agricultural structure for future generations
will allow to secure the food chain, while also protecting biodiversity. When reaching out to the
European Union, Poland’s solution to the reduction of greenhouse gases, to improve food
security is a system designed to start come January 2023 and promote food security when there is
an increase in climate concerns. With this, any reductions in greenhouse gases will act parallel to
food security, as emissions attached to food and agriculture are linked to the physical changes
that society is attempting to improve with the adaptations made in the European green deal
(Prandecki et., al, 2021). Denmark is the additional country within the European Union that is accelerating over other
countries in this battle, by ranking themselves as a leading country in the protection of the food
industry, they have managed to incorporate the European green deal into their proposition with
the inclusion of the ADRA to ensure food security in Denmark but developing a successful
system in additional countries in the European Union (Slebzack, 2013). Moreover, the
international cooperation that the European Union has settled upon in recognition of the
“European” green new deal also for the development of additional plans ensuring food security,
in the potential for unseen circumstances. Thus, this will allow for the global transition to
sustainable policies. The European Union sees the food industry as its largest contributor to climate change, so when
it comes to food security there is an unequal distribution of power when incorporating the
European green deal, however, each country emits different levels of emissions, also with
different forms of government, which means different ideologies and beliefs. This does not stop
the acts of sustainability as all European countries act together to benefit the world of tomorrow,
as we are impeding on a global crisis, and trying to obtain climate cohesion.
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Canada
From a Canadian perspective, the effects of climate change are already evident ranging from
coastal erosion, thawing permafrost, and flooding that risks the critical infrastructure and food
security. Leading to the urgency in Canada’s participation in the global effort of climate
resolution during these unprecedented changes shown to demonstrate the dominance of human
activity in the global north where there is seen to be the highest levels of greenhouse gas
emissions, even in the sense that the entire planet is impacted by one’s choices, and not
necessarily the original location of such activity. The federal government of Canada has not
distinctly founded its method to secure sustainability, but instead has worked upon adapting
methods made by its fellow countries of the United Nations to claim a solution to climate
resolution and securing food sustainability, with there own unique ideology on the “green new
deal”. Since then, Canada has been a leading country in the fight for the future and creating new
energy policies in its current platform set out in 2019 that moves away from the current method
of fossil fuels and cut emissions by at least 50% by 2030, all while protecting and reducing
economic and racial inequality (Government of Canada, 2017). The push for climate cohesion derives from the need and request of Canadians. Canadians want
to live in a world that allows them full access to local and international food annually, which
drove 2/3 of Canadians to initiate a conference that speaks towards the federal government to
take measures of climate bolder and faster actions. Canadians’ initial response came from polls
that originated in Alberta, with most of the population agreeing towards the tar sands, and its
citizens arguing to phase out fossil fuel industries and devote the available resources to
renewable energy (Government of Canada, 2017). Canadians have been requesting the harsher
methods since society entered the Harper government, however, due to major contradictions and
setbacks seen in past years, there was limited success in conquering this global crisis, because of
the lack of strategies and policies, this was seen differently at the turn of the election when the
Trudeau government took office, even though they saw similar contradictions, the liberals
successfully brought in the Trudeau policy framework. Once being brought to the federal stage,
thus creating a big step forward for the country by being able to successfully plan out a strategy
for climate change that works on clean growth. This is where the green new deal was adopted
into the Canadian government, as a form of “road map”, to shift the Canadian economy to
emphasize the need to address issues like economic inequality that influence clean fuel, and the
national price on carbon emissions as well as fuel efficiency, and the transition towards
renewable energy infrastructure. This framework working to enhance the economic inequalities
that remain in the country is overall helping to resolve issues around food security because the
shifting towards the renewable energy infrastructure will reduce the number of greenhouse gases
released into the atmosphere, moreover, society will not see the dramatic aspects of climate
change that influence the weather patterns that contribute to the food supply system. Canada’s role in dealing with food security and sustainability while attempting to resolve this
global crisis with impacts made from the basis that is the Green New Deal has become of such
importance nowadays because of the urgency to sustain life for future generations, and that can
only be done if humanity as access to food and water supplies. Given the recent decline in media
coverage by 80% in Canada on climate change research (Stone, 2021). Canadians are not getting
the same impact and feeling the need to change to focus on sustainability, causing “the point of
no return” to approach at a faster rate. As well as the federal government had made strict
measures to the climate scientists as they must get formal permission before speaking to the
media, which replaces the responsibility of the research to facilitate the current framework to
Canada’s information commissioner. But in all means, this shows Canada in an evolving world,
and this is the next stage in securing humanity’s survival. Thus, requires strict leadership over
several individuals to evaluate each circumstance. Food insecurity and issues revolving around the Green New Deal
For one to demonstrate that the largest contributor of climate change is related to the food
industry, and the solution remains within the green new deal, there as to be negative aspects that
could disprove beneficial ideas, to further the overall purpose, this being food insecurity and
issues surrounding the green new deal. Food insecurity is a global issue that is occurring at
unprecedented rates, which directly impacts the economy, and pushes countries further into debt.
Currently, the global south is seeing drastic effects of food insecurity because of the global north,
where the United Nations suspects approximately 155 million people are feeling the effects of
food insecurity annually due to the economic shocks and extreme weather patterns that fall
victim to increase in greenhouse gas emissions (United Nations, 2021). Following most issues, the green new deal is no exception, and even though its shows great
potential as a solution to climate cohesion, there will still be drawbacks. This is because the
social and political views being that the green new deal poses views on becoming carbon neutral,
implying the federal governments would phase out the industry, which also then create hiatic
with jobs and the economy. This also derives from society’s technologies and making goals for
the future when there are critical components that have yet to be finalized (Jordon, 2019).
Nothing is perfect in this world and requires constant adaptations to have the benefits pay off,
and food security and the foundations of the green new deal are no exception. There are methods
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to improving social and political ties, that revolve around not overthinking the process and taking
simple measures in reducing one carbon imprint, to impact countries in the global south at a
slower rate.
Conclusion Furthermore, the global north can successfully fulfill the requirements of environmental
sustainability and protect the food industry by incorporating the green new deal into their
legislation, that was only made possible because of the history of the United States governments,
and the international cooperation amongst its fellow countries of the United Nations to formulate
their ideas of the green new deal and generate there own method to resolve the impacts they
leave in there region of the globe. This being the inclusion of the Trudeau policy framework in
Canada, and the European green deal for the countries of the European Union. Dealing with the
largest contributor towards climate change requires individual attention to achieve climate
cohesion even in a food that views that we can not resolve food insecurity as part of society
believes the incorporation of the green new deal will further impact other sectors of our
economy, setting us further back from our desired intentions, however, the goal for sustainability
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