Read the facts, one thing is worth underscoring is an increasingly narrow deadlines. Dr.Rajendra K. Pachauri, IPCC Chairman, stressed that the next two years the deadline is important to inhibit the rate of global warming is moving very quickly. James Hansen, NASA climate expert, said that we have been at a point ten percent above the threshold limit of the Earth's ability to digest CO2. That is, we have exceeded the turning point. At current levels, actions to be taken no longer reduced, but stopped.
We need speed and accuracy of reading matter to be able to choose an effective solution.Solution capable of racing against time to slow global warming. In this regard, in his press conference in Paris, January 15, 2008, Pachauri urged the world community in the individual level to: first, do not eat meat. Second, ride a bike.Third, be a frugal shopper. And discussed here is do not eat meat, no meat consumption patterns.
Why "do not eat meat" was ranked first? The facts speak, like a report released the World Food â € "FAO (2006) in Livestock's Long Shadow â €" Environmental Issues and Options, meat is a commodity producer of carbon emissions the most intense 18%), exceeding even the contribution of carbon emissions combination all motor vehicles (motorcycles, cars, trucks, planes, ships, trains, helicopters) in the world (13%). Livestmock also is a major driver of deforestation. An estimated 70% percent of former forests in the Amazon has been converted into grazing-functioned. Each year, the clearing of forests for farm land clearing contributed 2.4 billion tons of CO2 emissions.
Raising animals requires electrical energy to the lights and ancillary equipment farms, ranging from heating, cutting machines, refrigerators for the storage of meat. A refrigerator is the most inefficient chain of electrical energy. Just count the engine coolant from slaughterhouses, distributors, retailers, restaurants, markets up to the consumer. The next chain inefficiency is a means of transportation for transporting livestock, fodder, until other supporting elements in intensive animal husbandry such as drugs, hormones and vitamins.
April 30, 2008, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono invited the whole nation to be with each side facing the world food crisis. The root problem of food shortages if the observed one of them is the crisis management of the land itself.Mathematically, the inefficiency of agricultural land use for livestock feed is reflected in the calculation of calories "wasted" enough to raise cattle. Food that has been given to livestock to meet the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people!Means there is still excess calories for 2.1 billion people. Actually it is not hard to understand the urgency of these dietary changes, to changes to the diet of short chain eyes. The human stomach can directly digest soybeans, corn and wheat without having to go through the stomach of cattle first. Do not switch to a meat-free diet can actually be a solution to unequal access to food around the world?
Objectivity will lead us to recognize patterns of consumption of meat as the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Our choice is not much, given such a narrow deadlines. Quoting Queensland Senator Andrew Bartlett, that the whole world does not have to be a vegetarian or vegan to save our planet, but we must acknowledge these scientific facts, that if we do not reduce the consumption of animal products, our chance to stop climate change is nil. According to Bartlett, there is no step that is cheaper, easier and faster to do that can reduce each individual's contribution to emissions of greenhouse gases in addition to cutting the amount of consumption of meat and milk and other dairy products.
Changing eating habits is also dealing with that has been entrenched. However, holding a spoon and finally dropped the choice of what to put into our mouths, entirely within our control. Directly can be done! The distance between plate and mouth we might just long spoon, turn the contents of the spoon only takes the blink of an eye, but his control is on each of our mindset. For a moment, let it cool head is present. Let's clear-eyed view of reality, acknowledging the fact how much the pressure pattern of consumption of meat so great on the Earth's carrying capacity.For a moment felt the heavy burden of this Earth will probably be our choice to shift consumption patterns without meat, a pattern that is much more Earth friendly.
We need speed and accuracy of reading matter to be able to choose an effective solution.Solution capable of racing against time to slow global warming. In this regard, in his press conference in Paris, January 15, 2008, Pachauri urged the world community in the individual level to: first, do not eat meat. Second, ride a bike.Third, be a frugal shopper. And discussed here is do not eat meat, no meat consumption patterns.
Why "do not eat meat" was ranked first? The facts speak, like a report released the World Food â € "FAO (2006) in Livestock's Long Shadow â €" Environmental Issues and Options, meat is a commodity producer of carbon emissions the most intense 18%), exceeding even the contribution of carbon emissions combination all motor vehicles (motorcycles, cars, trucks, planes, ships, trains, helicopters) in the world (13%). Livestmock also is a major driver of deforestation. An estimated 70% percent of former forests in the Amazon has been converted into grazing-functioned. Each year, the clearing of forests for farm land clearing contributed 2.4 billion tons of CO2 emissions.
Raising animals requires electrical energy to the lights and ancillary equipment farms, ranging from heating, cutting machines, refrigerators for the storage of meat. A refrigerator is the most inefficient chain of electrical energy. Just count the engine coolant from slaughterhouses, distributors, retailers, restaurants, markets up to the consumer. The next chain inefficiency is a means of transportation for transporting livestock, fodder, until other supporting elements in intensive animal husbandry such as drugs, hormones and vitamins.
April 30, 2008, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono invited the whole nation to be with each side facing the world food crisis. The root problem of food shortages if the observed one of them is the crisis management of the land itself.Mathematically, the inefficiency of agricultural land use for livestock feed is reflected in the calculation of calories "wasted" enough to raise cattle. Food that has been given to livestock to meet the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people!Means there is still excess calories for 2.1 billion people. Actually it is not hard to understand the urgency of these dietary changes, to changes to the diet of short chain eyes. The human stomach can directly digest soybeans, corn and wheat without having to go through the stomach of cattle first. Do not switch to a meat-free diet can actually be a solution to unequal access to food around the world?
Objectivity will lead us to recognize patterns of consumption of meat as the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Our choice is not much, given such a narrow deadlines. Quoting Queensland Senator Andrew Bartlett, that the whole world does not have to be a vegetarian or vegan to save our planet, but we must acknowledge these scientific facts, that if we do not reduce the consumption of animal products, our chance to stop climate change is nil. According to Bartlett, there is no step that is cheaper, easier and faster to do that can reduce each individual's contribution to emissions of greenhouse gases in addition to cutting the amount of consumption of meat and milk and other dairy products.
Changing eating habits is also dealing with that has been entrenched. However, holding a spoon and finally dropped the choice of what to put into our mouths, entirely within our control. Directly can be done! The distance between plate and mouth we might just long spoon, turn the contents of the spoon only takes the blink of an eye, but his control is on each of our mindset. For a moment, let it cool head is present. Let's clear-eyed view of reality, acknowledging the fact how much the pressure pattern of consumption of meat so great on the Earth's carrying capacity.For a moment felt the heavy burden of this Earth will probably be our choice to shift consumption patterns without meat, a pattern that is much more Earth friendly.
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