If we all gave up meat, it would stop global warming before it's too late.
We have anywhere from 3 to 12 years to lower global temperatures before it becomes irreversible.
zonavar68 · 56-60, M
Climate change has been naturally occuring since the earth became a blob of mass held together by gravity.
It's *not* caused primarily by human activity, but human activity definitely adds to it (in a small way).
Animals have been killing animals for food since the dawn of earth-time.
What would you think if there was a class of animal above humans that farmed *us* for meat? Or classes of plants that 'ate' animals (in a much larger scale that things like pitcher plants, venus fly traps, etc.) including us humans?
I'm not religious, but I always think about the animals that gave their lives so I can eat meat. Do you think about the lives of all the plants you kill for food?
It's *not* caused primarily by human activity, but human activity definitely adds to it (in a small way).
Animals have been killing animals for food since the dawn of earth-time.
What would you think if there was a class of animal above humans that farmed *us* for meat? Or classes of plants that 'ate' animals (in a much larger scale that things like pitcher plants, venus fly traps, etc.) including us humans?
I'm not religious, but I always think about the animals that gave their lives so I can eat meat. Do you think about the lives of all the plants you kill for food?
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Gibbon · 70-79, M
Let's see the year was 1970. Hmm I think I've heard this before
PatientlyWaiting25 · 46-50, F
MrAverage1965 · 61-69, M
@PatientlyWaiting25 It's not just meat, we have a bottle of pinot grigio in the fridge from Australia
PatientlyWaiting25 · 46-50, F
@MrAverage1965 we like the fancy stuff too much.
MrAverage1965 · 61-69, M
@PatientlyWaiting25 It's not that fancy plenty of similar options available
H1raeth · 41-45, M
@Foxes Giving up meat will not completely stop global warming, but it is one of the most effective individual actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow climate change. Livestock farming is responsible for an estimated 12% to 14.5% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions,
ArishMell · 70-79, M
I don't think it would, although concerted groups of vegetarians like to campaign on that.
The fear is due purely to cattle belching methane, which is a powerful "greenhouse gas", but it is possible to give the animals supplements (including I think seaweed) to reduce that. In any case, it is a natural by-product of fermenting vegetable matter in anaerobic conditions.
We'd need replace meat and presumably dairy products with other food sources, but what sources? What environmental problems of their own would come from increasing their production sufficiently?
What would replace wool and leather? Sensibly and sustainably, that is. Most of us likely wear on any one day a mix of natural materials (chiefly cotton, wool, some linen, plus perhaps leather and rubber shoes) and synthetics (all plastics made from petroleum products). Errr... what will happen when the oil stops by depletion, policy or both?
The primary man-made climate-change driver is still burning coal in large but (world-wide) diminishing quantities for power generation and as coke for iron-ore smelting, natural-gas for power-generation and a heating fuel, and petroleum-derivative fuels in much larger and increasing volumes.
The hazard was identified over a hundred years ago, when coal was the world's primary fuel. It was conveniently ignored or forgotten by a mix of the then-calculated danger time being far into the 21C, and by a comforting belief that rapidly-developing Science and Engineering will "tame Nature" to solve all the world's technical problems. Only, although petroleum and methane have replaced coal as the main fuel sources, we are already nearly a third of the way through the Twenty-first Century.
The fear is due purely to cattle belching methane, which is a powerful "greenhouse gas", but it is possible to give the animals supplements (including I think seaweed) to reduce that. In any case, it is a natural by-product of fermenting vegetable matter in anaerobic conditions.
We'd need replace meat and presumably dairy products with other food sources, but what sources? What environmental problems of their own would come from increasing their production sufficiently?
What would replace wool and leather? Sensibly and sustainably, that is. Most of us likely wear on any one day a mix of natural materials (chiefly cotton, wool, some linen, plus perhaps leather and rubber shoes) and synthetics (all plastics made from petroleum products). Errr... what will happen when the oil stops by depletion, policy or both?
The primary man-made climate-change driver is still burning coal in large but (world-wide) diminishing quantities for power generation and as coke for iron-ore smelting, natural-gas for power-generation and a heating fuel, and petroleum-derivative fuels in much larger and increasing volumes.
The hazard was identified over a hundred years ago, when coal was the world's primary fuel. It was conveniently ignored or forgotten by a mix of the then-calculated danger time being far into the 21C, and by a comforting belief that rapidly-developing Science and Engineering will "tame Nature" to solve all the world's technical problems. Only, although petroleum and methane have replaced coal as the main fuel sources, we are already nearly a third of the way through the Twenty-first Century.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
H1raeth · 41-45, M
@SunshineGirl Are you a Mum? You speak like a Mum and I completely understand that.
1490wayb · 56-60, M
what is your proof?? only giving up meat will solve this problem?? how am i to know you are correct??
bookerdana · M