Environment & Energy

Victor Galaz, an associate professor at the Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, which was involved in shaping the Eat-Lancet report, studied the online response at the time. “Everyone was shocked by the volume and tone of the tweets: the aggressiveness and degree of lying, to put it very bluntly,” he said. “Climate change science has faced this kind of backlash for a while. But in this domain – diets and meat – that was new to people. Everyone was shocked.”