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Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet
Robin Pagnamenta
London
Times
Tuesday, Oct 27th, 2009
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.
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