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Report Finds That Agriculture Is Breaching Several Planetary Boundaries

Food Tank

Mckinsey finds that human activity has already extended beyond the “safe operating space” for four of these boundaries: biodiversity loss, chemical and plastic pollution, nutrient pollution, and greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. As a sector, agriculture has the single largest direct impact on planetary boundaries.

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NOAA Is Rolling Out a Plan to Radically Expand Offshore Aquaculture. Not Everyone Is Onboard.

Civil Eats

While we continue to sustainably manage our wild harvest fisheries, we cannot meet the increasing domestic demand for seafood through those fisheries alone.” “The So, harvesting enough fish feed without overfishing is tricky. Whether it’s wild-harvested or farmed, that is where we see the lowest impacts to the environment.”