As individuals we can save water, ride bikes and use energy-saving lightbulbs but even if everyone diligently did all these things the problem would not go away.
Today the cities were full of people marching to demand action to prevent global warming. A good thing of course. It prompted TV news stations to dust off their stock footage of ‘natural’ disasters and smog-filled cities.
Animal agriculture is the number one cause of climate change, a fact that governments and businesses have kept quiet for obvious reasons. To make matters worse, Al Gore, Greenpeace, Naomi Klein and other campaigners have also all but ignored this issue.
If you are truly worried about climate change then you should watch Cowspiracy and check out the Green Your Diet website.
Going vegan is the ideal solution but even reducing the consumption of meat would help the planet far more than turning off unnecessary lights or not using water sprinklers on your lawn.
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING by Naomi Klein (Allen Lane, 2013)
