{"id":76228,"date":"2020-09-27T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=76228"},"modified":"2020-09-27T13:49:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T13:49:41","slug":"in-a-year-of-climate-reckoning-where-does-joe-biden-stand-climate-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/in-a-year-of-climate-reckoning-where-does-joe-biden-stand-climate-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Year of Climate Reckoning, Where Does Joe Biden Stand on Climate and Agriculture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><em><strong>Fires rage in the West as storms, hurricanes, and floods hit the rest of the country. Progressives are pushing Biden to transform the food system and manage and mitigate the effects of the climate crisis.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><em>This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.&nbsp;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Last fall\u2014in debates, Town Hall meetings, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2019\/09\/05\/climate-town-hall-brings-food-and-agriculture-to-center-stage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interviews<\/a>\u2014nearly every Democratic presidential candidate pointed to connections between food production and the climate crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">And the similarities went further than that: a whopping&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/2020-election\/candidates-views-on-the-issues\/agriculture\/farming-and-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 candidates<\/a>&nbsp;agreed that the next administration should pay farmers to adopt climate-friendly practices. Nearly as many also pointed to the need for regenerative practices that make soil a carbon sink, rather than a source of greenhouse gas emissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Now, as the general election looms, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/21340746\/joe-biden-covid-19-coronavirus-recession-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden agenda<\/a>&nbsp;and the Democratic Party\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/27\/895800425\/democrats-meet-virtually-to-approve-platform-that-builds-off-of-biden-sanders-ef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020 platform<\/a>&nbsp;both include a \u201czero emissions\u201d goal for agriculture as well as increased investment in conservation practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Last fall\u2014in debates, Town Hall meetings, and&nbsp;interviews\u2014nearly every Democratic presidential candidate pointed to connections between food production and the climate crisis.&nbsp;And the similarities went further than that: a whopping&nbsp;10 candidates&nbsp;agreed that the next administration should pay farmers to adopt climate-friendly practices.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":76230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,9],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In a Year of Climate Reckoning, Where Does Joe Biden Stand on Climate and Agriculture? 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