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Climate change isn’t a distant future issue — it’s here, now, and it’s personal. You can feel it in the strange weather, the rising insurance bills and the fact that 2024 was the hottest year ever recorded. But here’s the wild part: we’ve been blaming the wrong things.

You probably believe that fossil fuels are the villains of climate change. And yes, they’re bad — and they have made us feel helpless, but they’re not the worst bad actor. New research shows that animal agriculture — yes, what we’re eating — is doing the real damage.

Here are five things every West Orange resident should know about how food choices and trees are driving the climate crisis — and what we can do about it in each of our homes.

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