We can all agree this is an inefficient and unsustainable system. The global livestock industry accounts for 83% of all farmland, and humans and livestock make up 98% of all mammals on Earth, yet animal products only provide 18% of all calories consumed. According to a 2014 IPCC report agriculture and forestry contribute 24% of GHGs, to put that into perspective all the world’s trains, cars, buses, planes, boats etc make up 14% of GHG emissions. The global animal agriculture industry is one of the largest sources of anthropogenic GHG (human caused greenhouse gas) emissions. In late 2017, Attenborough revealed he had stopped eating meat, calling animal farming practices “depressing.” “We may well say… ‘well it doesn’t really matter whether we go on eating meat, because we’re not affected.” It’s time that the government took real responsibility for climate change and the endangerment of not just humankind but all life on our planet Earth.Īccording to famously popular documentary maker David Attenborough “the comfortable west” – is still largely untouched by the effects of global warming. Read more about the Doomsday Clock: 1, 2, 3Ī 2018 report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told us we’d need to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in half by 2030. The above quote is from the opening speech, given by Rachel Bronson- president and CEO of of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, at the 2020 Doomsday Clock Announcement. “ The current environment is profoundly unstable and urgent action and immediate engagement is required by all.”

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