While pop-culture interest in "Global Warming" has skyrocketed in the months following Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Everyone is talking about in some way or another, whether to "debunk" the science (we're betting these people also spend a good deal of time "debunking" evolution) or preaching "go green" by doing things like.... drive a Prius.
Gore & space cadet Richard Branson have both ponied up $25m to the "first person to develop a technology that will efficiently remove carbon from the atmosphere". (I sent them a couple douglas fir saplings, but I am still waiting for my check). Which alludes to perhaps the biggest inconvient truth of the whole Global Warming crisis : we already know how to drastically reduce greenhouse gasses : GO VEGAN.
"Researchers at the University of Chicago have determined that switching to a vegan diet is more effective in countering global warming than switching from a standard American car to a Toyota Prius."To highlite the issue, PETA has demanded that the LIVE EARTH concert for Global Warming eliminate meat from the menu. They say, and I agree, that a concert for the environment selling meat is hypocritical. (Not to mention all the cars that will be driving to the event, etc. etc.)
In the words of Yvonne Taylor, "There's no such thing as a meat eating environmentalist."
The original article is here:
Wembley Urged To Take Meat Off Live Earth Menu
2 comments:
I am an atheist (in the sense of disbelief in gods, I do consider myself spiritual) vegan too.
Re global warming, I would suggest the science ought to not be considered "all settled" yet.
Check out the last few comments on global warming at my site http://bhanwara.blogspot.com/ if you would like to read more dissenting opinion on global warming.
Hi,
Great blog!
'In the words of Yvonne Taylor, "There's no such thing as a meat eating environmentalist."'
I agree.
I was a spontaneous atheist, conservationist and ethical vegetarian at age 14 (1945). Pretty simple stuff if you think about it, but then again, religion, the food industry and your teachers and fellow students all would have you not think about it.
The first wall to freedom of thought in the USA is religion, but once you get over that wall of stupidity you are on you way to becoming human. The next wall is killing animals or buying meat or dairy from those that kill animals. Once you are over that wall you can go into the deep woods and really see the woods without the eyes of a hunter. You are not there to extract anything from the forest. You are a friend to all species of the forest. The final wall is the biologists that would have you use the woods for some human purpose. If you see acres set aside for the natural landscape then there is no human purpose and then it is your job to watch over those acres. You are free, free, free!
Atheist
Conservationist
Ethical vegetarian (aka vegan)
All are selfless.
As opposed to the selfish ... people of faith, most so-called environmental scientists that use their training to exploit the environment and meat eaters ... all selfish, self-centered people of little use to human progress.
Richard Stafursky
Brattleboro, VT USA
http://wslfconwaymausa.blogspot.com/
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