Becoming a Sustainable Global Citizen - Part III
I hadn’t planned on a 3rd part to this series, but a team of U.N. researchers revealed an option within anyone’s power that has a bigger impact than switching to a hybrid Toyota Prius. Here are the highlights:
- the emissions generated by feeding, transporting, & slaughtering livestock exceeds that of all the world’s transportation combined
- animal agriculture takes up 70% of all agricultural land, 30% of the total land surface of the planet
- animal agriculture accounts for 37% of our methane emissions and a whopping 65% of our nitrous oxide, with 23 and 296 times more warming power than carbon dioxide, respectively
I quit red meat long ago, but with this I’m going the rest of the way. Thanks, Ted, for the article.
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I can cut down on meat but not give it up. I eat meat 6/7 days of the weak. It would be like giving up my left testicle in terms of difficulty.
i’ve been making lots of spelling errors lately due to sleep deprivation sadly
Get some more sleep!
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-early-riser/