Serious about battling climate change? Then you might want to consider going vegetarian. Thats because its looking like world temperatures will continue to climb unless people stop chowing on so much meat and dairy, according to new research from Sweden. The United Nations believes its imperative to keep future warming from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. To meet that target, there will have to be a sharp decrease in greenhouse-gas emissions by the end of the century. Some of the reductions must come from the energy industry, and some must hail from the agricultural realm. But with agriculture, it wont be enough to roll out smarter animal feeds and better methods of crop production, say scientists at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. Rather, reduced ruminant meat and dairy consumption will be indispensable for reaching the 2 °C target with a high probability, unless unprecedented advances in technology take place, they assert in a study in Climatic Change.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:00:21 +0000
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