@TSearchinger

Senior Research Scholar @Princeton, Senior Fellow and Technical Director for Agriculture, Forestry & Ecosystems @WorldResources

 Washington, DC
scholar.princeton.edu/tsearchi/
Joined December 2018
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Replying to @SizeMichael
The superior use of land is to not use it for anything. There is a carbon opportunity cost to using it for farming. The expansion of soybean and palm oil especially has been a key driver of tropical deforestation. We shouldn't be putting those crops in cars.
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WRI Food@WRIFood27 Jul 2023
WRI's latest report projects a “business as usual” 54% increase in overall wood demand between 2010 and 2050. Producing this wood would require harvesting an area of forest land the size of the continental U.S. bit.ly/3Oo3kVi
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Reclaimed and recycled wood doesn't seen to even get a mention? Is the percentage so small it's not even worth noting?
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WRI Food@WRIFood14 Jul 2023
Join us on July 20th for headline findings from new research on how rising demand for food, wood and shelter are squeezing land that's also needed to conserve biodiversity and store carbon ⬇️ bit.ly/3PUVe7s?utm_campaign=…

The Global Land Squeeze: How to Manage Growing Competition for Land

Join WRI for a webinar to dive into its latest report, which combines modeling for the land and carbon effects of all three rising sources of demand for land, their land use, and the carbon consequ...

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Excellent dismantling of the Biden biofuels mandate by ⁦@Dlashof⁩. Dan is an honest thinker who used to be a biofuels advocate but changed his mind when he saw evidence he was wrong. (This will be a theme in my book - not everyone is like Dan!) wri.org/insights/us-renewabl…
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Michael Grunwald@MikeGrunwald6 Jun 2023
Biofuels are bad. Biden (and everyone else in Washington) should stop pushing them. A thread about my NYT rant! 1 nytimes.com/2023/06/06/opini…

Opinion | The Climate Solution That’s Horrible for the Climate (Gift Article)

Corn ethanol and soy biodiesel accelerate food inflation and global hunger, but they’re also a disaster for the climate and the environment.

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"Growing plants is good. Burning plants isn’t." @PrincetonSPIA senior research scholar @TSearchinger tells @grist about the skepticism around ethanol and its impact on the environment. bit.ly/42AxtEW
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6 Pressing Questions About Beef and Climate Change, Answered. This is one of @WorldResources long-running top-trafficked reads. Trusted facts on a complex topic. Good read, wri.org/insights/6-pressing-… via @WorldResources @waiterich @TSearchinger

6 Pressing Questions About Beef and Climate Change, Answered

There are a lot of misconceptions swirling about beef, its environmental impacts, how it's produced and whether to eat it. We examined the latest research to separate myth from fact.

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What about crop-based biofuels? 🌿 Filling planes up with these fuels has massive implications for UK land use. Up to 68% of the UK's farmland would be needed to grow enough biofuel crops to replace all the UK's jet fuel... 2/
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Michael Grunwald@MikeGrunwald7 Feb 2023
The subhed is literally: Cultivated meat doesn't cause cancer, so why isn't this industry that doesn't exist yet answering questions that nobody has asked yet?
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Michael Grunwald@MikeGrunwald7 Feb 2023
Scientists say eating beef won't make you moo or crap in the grass, but beef is made of organisms that do just that - why is the industry avoiding the question?
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Michael Grunwald@MikeGrunwald7 Feb 2023
The basic argument of the latest attack on cultivated meat is that it sounds kinda cancer-ish. Also that this 7-year-old industry with products in zero grocery stores worldwide hasn’t done long-term studies. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Lab-Grown Meat Has a Bigger Problem Than the Lab

Leading scientists agree that cultured meat products won’t give you cancer, but the industry doesn’t have the decades of data to prove it—so it’s trying to avoid the question instead.

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Tamar Haspel@TamarHaspel16 Dec 2022
This @NYTimes piece on dispelling climate myths perpetuates a big one. @Sander_vdLinden we gotta talk about organic food! Its 20ish% yield penalty makes organic ag a climate loser. It's good for some other things, but not that. cc: @MikeGrunwald nytimes.com/interactive/2022…

Opinion | Quiz: What’s the Best Way to Shrink Your Carbon Footprint? (Published 2022)

Take this quiz to see how you stack up.

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“Humanity needs to start shrinking our agricultural footprint and expanding our natural footprint, after thousands of years of doing the reverse,” writes @MikeGrunwald. nyti.ms/3YnKTml

Opinion | No One Wants to Say ‘Put Down That Burger,’ but We Really Should (Published 2022)

If current eating and farming trends continue, the world will clear at least one and a quarter Indias’ worth of land by 2050.

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Thin@thinink10 Dec 2022
A set of proposals to revise & update EU laws to bring them in line with goal to slash emissions by 55% by 2030 could cause more deforestation both at home & abroad due to its bioenergy provisions, said paper co-authored by @TSearchinger. #FoodSystems news.thin-ink.net/p/the-land…
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Justin Catanoso@jcatanoso7 Dec 2022
As EU works to finalize renewable energy plan, forest advocates condemn biomass as industry stands its ground news.mongabay.com/2022/12/as… via @Mongabay My latest. @World_Bioenergy @biofuelwatch @GreenpeaceEU @fenokkio @BirdLifeEurope @TSearchinger

As EU finalizes renewable energy plan, forest advocates condemn biomass

Policymakers could finalize revisions to the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive by year end, even as forest activists offer new evidence denouncing wood pellets as an energy source, and calling for an...

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This great @tsearchinger paper about insane EU bioenergy policies suggests a pithy explanation of why burning trees or crops for energy is bad: It outsources emissions to the developing world. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

EU climate plan sacrifices carbon storage and biodiversity for bioenergy

Nature - Incoming policies will cause the European Union to harvest more wood, shift one-fifth of cropland to bioenergy and outsource deforestation, analysis shows.

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Kudos to @IngkaGroup for cutting food waste by 54% across IKEA restaurants in 32 markets, making it the first global company to achieve SDG12.3. Wasted food equals wasted GHGs, water, land, fertilizers & money @IKEAUSA #champions123 @WorldResources @WRIFood
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Unfortunately, 'fine woody debris' is the least of our problems. EU policy is leading to vast quantities of whole trees being burnt in the name of 'renewable energy' - see the photos from a majority of Member States in this @ForestDefence report. forestdefenders.eu/wp-conten… 10/
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🚨New IDB study: 🥩🧀🐮😋cattle provides 12% of protein and 4% of calories consumed in Latin America but 57% of GHG emissions from food + 58% of deforestation. Reducing the impact of beef is key to reach #NetZero in #LATAM DL here 🔽 publications.iadb.org/public… read 🧵for more - 1/4
the first page of an academic paper, showing the title "Options to achieve net-zero emissions from agriculture and land use changes in Latin America and the Caribbean" and authors Dumas, Patrice; Wirsenius, Stefan; Searchinger, Tim; Andrieu, Nadine; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien

ALT the first page of an academic paper, showing the title "Options to achieve net-zero emissions from agriculture and land use changes in Latin America and the Caribbean" and authors Dumas, Patrice; Wirsenius, Stefan; Searchinger, Tim; Andrieu, Nadine; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien

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