Yay! Thanks for representing nexus there!

In addition, our recently published Nexus Assessment chapter 2 on drivers and trends notes how conflicts can drive biodiversity loss, water and food insecurity, health declines and climate impacts: zenodo.org/records/1734...

I also have a deeper dive into the Vietnam War (including the impacts of bombings, herbicides, deliberate fires and land clearing, marine pollution and water contamination, and weather modification) - recently published at the Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian History oxfordre.com/asianhistory...

One place to begin is learning from past mistakes to avoid environmental damage and failures to remediate after conflict. The US-Vietnam War is a particularly salient example: see my recent article summarizing the environmental legacies of Vietnam online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...

The whole point of the Nexus Assessment is that we don't have to choose climate OR biodiversity, water, food and health. They are all part of the same problem, and solutions that tackle all these in an integrated way are the path forward. ipbes.net/nexus 14/14

The good news is we have a lot of options to tackle health, food, water insecurity and biodiversity AS WELL AS climate all together - solutions like agroecology, sustainable diets, urban nature-based solutions, etc. We have a list of 71 different integrated solutions in our report! 13/

And while Gates focuses mostly on poorest, our report points out "Unhealthy diets have become one of the most important drivers of global mortality, accounting for nearly 11 million adult deaths in 2017 and 255 million disability-adjusted life years". These diets are also very carbon intense! /12

Climate change itself also "impacts terrestrial food production through numerous pathways (e.g., heat-stress effects on crop yield, water availability and quality) with consequences for human health and well being, including exacerbating food insecurity for vulnerable populations." 11/

But Gates misleads by saying Sri Lanka tried to root out synthetic fertilizers to reduce GHG emissions. They did it for health reasons! Other countries have better examples to follow (eg in reducing nitrogen pollution without affecting yields) 10/