Posted on 10/27/2009 5:48:08 AM PDT by Overtaxed Patriot
People will need to turn 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.
He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat eating became unacceptable. “I think it’s important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating,” he said. “I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.”
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
The oceans release a monstrous amount of methane....
What a crock, I admit though I don’t red meat anymore though but that is due to the way it is raised today, but still, save the planet ? This admistration is telling the children of this world were 8 ways from doomed. Where’s the HOPE in that?
Another guy who is wasting our precious oxygen reserves by existing.
This is nuts, doesnt’ make sense.
A few hundred years ago there were millions of bison roaming the great plains, larger herds of caribou in the tundra, and much larger herds of grazing animals in Africa and elsewhere. I guess they didn’t fart though.
Think I’m having a nice rare steak tonight.
***The oceans release a monstrous amount of methane....**
As do the sterns of meatheads lording it over the rest of us.
Shame he has already lived his 61 years of indulging his own eating pleasures. Guess he wants the rest of us to eat crow.
As I will continue to take my own sage advice from Lord Smith of Wesson.
Even human beings don't graze that much!
The idiocy of the left has got to be a gift from God (you know, the one that doesn’t exist).
We couldn’t dial up a more complete set of vapid, clueless idiots had we tried.
The problem is that these folks will lie, cheat and steal to stay where they are.
Be prepared. Keep that powder dry.
Credentials, please!
You're not a 'leading authority' until several people who know the field [and who's hand is not in your pocket] says you are.
I'm sick to death of these self-proclaiming liberals.
I really see government as organized crime. it's now operating at the level of neighborhood protection racket. "Hey, that's a nice business ya got there. It would be a shame if anything happened to it. Tell you what, you give me a little something, and I'll watch over you and make sure nothing bad happens. Understand?"
Well, I'm not afraid of global warming, I don't need protection, and I will not bow down before these con artists.
I eat a lot of Vegi diet dishes for health reasons because I choose to but there is NO Government idiot that is going to tell me I have to, screw him and those like him.
Some are lying about global warming, some really are this stupid to be believe it.
Taking my cue from the other side:
Lord Stern of Brentford is a bag of mashed up meat.
NO
It’s not commonly mentioned but the methane is produced by an unusual type of bacteria, not by the cows and pigs. There are many ways to disrupt these parasites.
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