Physics : July 07, 2005

Global warming could be controlled if we all became vegetarians and stopped eating meat. That's the view of British physicist Alan Calverd, who thinks that giving up pork chops, lamb cutlets and chicken burgers would do more for the environment than burning less oil and gas.


Writing in this month's Physics World, Calvert calculates that the animals we eat emit 21% of all the carbon dioxide that can be attributed to human activity. We could therefore slash man-made emissions of carbon dioxide simply by abolishing all livestock.


Moreover, there would be no adverse effects to health and it would be an experiment that we could abandon at any stage. "Worldwide reduction of meat production in the pursuit of the targets set in the Kyoto treaty seems to carry fewer political unknowns than cutting our consumption of fossil fuels," he says.

Physics World is the international monthly magazine published by the Institute of Physics.

Source: Institute of Physics

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"The hypothesis that global burning (warming) is caused solely by urban consumers and urban industries consuming fossil fuels is basically propaganda generated by the landowning pharming elite (especially those in the over-industrialized nations) to cover up their devastation of the Earth's Forests.

The Earth's Forests are the most important part of the Earth's Photosynthetic capacity, which is the most crucial part of the Earth's climate stabilization system which, in turn, is the most essential part of the Earth's life support system.

Over the last couple of millenia the pharming industry, primarily the Animal exploitation industry, has transformed nearly a third of the Earth's land surface, much of it Forested, into pastureland. The biggest cause of the destabilization of the Earth's climate is not the fossil fuel industries but the global pharming industry."

from The Mundi Club's Carbonomics website

Reforestation with fruit and native trees, and the absolute preservation of all existing old growth forests is the key to climate stabilization. A fruit diet derived from replanted fruit forests supports the health of Humanity and the Earth.