Blog Action Day 2009 #BAD09 WWF and Climate Change

I’m with you! Not only will I write today in honor of BAD09 Climate, but also every day until COP15. (http://gosustainably.com/GOsustainably/Activsts/Entries/2009/10/7_The_Skinny_on_COP15.html)

Here’s my blog: http://74days.GOsustainably.com with personal reflections on the most urgent and global issue of our times.

- Pamela

Did you know?

1) We would need 5 planets if everyone consumed at the present American rates! (we only have 1 so far!)
2) In the last 3 decades alone, 1/3 of earth’s natural resources have been consumed!
3) 80% of the earth’s original forests are gone!

Join the call for our leaders to commit to Climate Justice Now: a global climate treaty based on achieving 350ppm or less!

GEO350 Climate Action Event on October 24th marks the International Day of Climate Action.

NOUS ALJMOVEGALYRE ; ASSEMBLEE MONDIALE DE LA JEUNESSE

NOUS, sommes de coeur avec vous ; et surtout notre preoccupation principale
et la premiere reforme dans notre cahier de ” CHANGE “…
LE RECHAUFFEMENT DU CLIMAT est de nos jours le sujet principal en SANTE ( environnementale est le complement de la sante des HOMMES ) et les differents documents que vous venez de nous offrir en temoignent dans la pertinance du sujet et nous ne pouvons que vous rendre nos HOMMAGES pour la suite de nos recherches au elements pour trouver ensemble la SOLUTION AU FLEAU …
NOUS SOMMES AUSSI A VOTRE DIOSPOSITION POUR TOUTE TACHE …
QUI POURRAI VOUS SERVIR
AU PROCHAIN TEMPS NOUS ALLONS FAIRE UNE SPECIALE FENETRE DE REFLEXION SUR LE SUJET.

MERCI ET TRES SINCEREMENT. ” JE SUIS TOUS SANS ETRE ET, J’AI TOUT SANS AVOIR “

seal the deal:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMpqRCHr5s0

In the run up to the Copenhagen climate change conference, it is vital the following information be disseminated to the public as well as to our political leaders.

A widely cited 2006 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Livestock’s Long Shadow, estimates that 18 percent of annual worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are attributable to livestock….however recent analysis by Goodland and Anhang co-authors of “Livestock and Climate Change” in the latest issue of World Watch magazine found that livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions!

http://www.51percent.org

The main sources of GHGs from animal agriculture are: (1) Deforestation of the rainforests to grow feed for livestock. (2) Methane from manure waste. – Methane is 72 times more potent as a global warming gas than CO2 (3) Refrigeration and transport of meat around the world. (4) Raising, processing and slaughtering of the animal.

Meat production also uses a massive amount of water and other resources which would be better used to feed the world’s hungry and provide water to those in need.

Based on their research, Goodland and Anhang conclude that replacing livestock products with soy-based and other alternatives would be the best strategy for reversing climate change. They say “This approach would have far more rapid effects on GHG emissions and their atmospheric concentrations-and thus on the rate the climate is warming-than actions to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy.”

The fact is that we are being informed of the dangerous path we are on by depending greatly on animal flesh for human consumption. We still have the opportunity to make the most effective steps in saving ourselves and this planet. By simply choosing a plant based diet we can reduce our carbon foot print by a huge amount.

We are gambling with our lives and with those of our future generations to come. It’s madness to know we are fully aware of the possible consequences but yet are failing to act.

Promoting a plant based diet to the public is would be the most effective way to curb deforestation, we hope this will be adopted as a significant measure to save the rainforests and protect the delicate ecology.

Thank you for your consideration.