| Where's the beef? In fewer places to fight climate change |
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| by William Atkins | |
| Wednesday, 11 February 2009 | |
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The paper called “Climate benefits of changing diet” was authored by Elke Stehfest, Lex Bouwman, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Michel G. J. den Elzen, and Bas Eickhout (all from the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Global Sustainability and Climate, Bilthoven, The Netherlands) and Pavel Kabat (from the Earth System Science and Climate Change Group, Wageningen University Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands). The paper (DOI: 10.1007/s10584-008-9534-6) appears in the Wednesday, February 4, 2009 online version of the journal Climatic Change. According to the paper of the Dutch researchers, livestock contributes about 18% of all the greenhouse gases that are emitted into Earth’s environment. The production of energy (such as electricity through coal or gasoline to power vehicles) is usually highlighted by the media and other such groups as the biggest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions. Well, it is. But, it is not the only contributor to the emission of greenhouse gases into our global atmospherer. Livestock grazing around the world, and eventually being eaten by humans, contribute a quite surprising amount itself to our global climate change—in fact, nearly one-fifth of all greenhouse gases are emitted into the atmosphere by livestock such as cows and pigs. Page two continues. |
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