CLIMATE CHIEF: GIVE UP MEAT TO SAVE THE PLANET!
People will need to consider turning vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.
In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”
Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas.
Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.
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If you going to take the illogic of “Global Warming” and take it to its
logical extreme; mass suicides will solve “Global Warming” and I believe
that the politicians in Washington should LEAD BY EXAMPLE and show us how its done! Al Gore should lead the charge as he uses 10 times more energy than anyone in his state and then he turns around and buys carbon credits to offset his footprint; FROM HIS COMPANY. Al Gore owns the carbon credit company he purchases from….
WHAT A GREAT SCAM…….