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A recent report, however, builds on the FAO report and finds that meat production actually accounts for at least 51% of annual worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. According to the authors of this report, 51% is actually a conservative number because they strove to minimize the sums of greenhouse gases they used. This new report, Livestock and Climate Change, co-authored by retired lead environmental adviser at the World Bank Group Robert Goodland and World Bank Groups International Finance Corporation research officer and environmental specialist Jeff Anhang, may be accessed at:
http://www.worldwatch.org/f...
Background: Humans consume over 380 million animals a day over 140 billion a year requiring an enormous amount of water, food, and land. The livestock sector impacts our environment chiefly through deforestation, pollution of our oceans with pesticides, chemical fertilizers and excretion, and greenhouse gas emissions in the form of methane and nitrous oxide.
Source: http://www.fao.org/ag/magaz......
Contrary to popular belief, we really only have 2 to 3 years left to drastically reduce global temperature in order to save the planet from the dreaded point of no return (explained in the next section). What this new report means is that the single most effective action individuals can take to save the planet is to reduce or eliminate meat and dairy consumption. If a significant number of people in the world adopts the simple but most powerful practice of an animal-free diet, then we could reverse the effects of global warming in time to avert the impending catastrophic events.
This will give us the time needed to adopt longer-term measures such as more green technology and clean energy sources that will further decrease the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.
In fact, if we continue with our current rate of meat production, all other green efforts will be cancelled out in effect, and we will lose the planet before we have the chance to implement any effective green technology.
In the scientific community, it is no longer being disputed as to whether global warming is related to human activities. In a random sampling of 928 abstracts of peer-reviewed scientific papers on global warming between 1993 and 2003 by Science Magazine, not even one single scientist challenged the consensus that global warming is human-induced.
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As to whether the rising temperature poses a serious threat to us in terms of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves, there is also virtually unanimous agreement among the scientists.
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If meat eating is not banned or not limited, then the whole planet will be gone. This is a life-and-death matter for everybody; it's not a personal choice. And we are eating meat, eating up the whole planet, eating up 90% of the food supply and letting other people hungry. #SMCH
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