climate change

  1. giveadamakick

    Doing something about climate change

    Hi folks, One of the main reasons I started on the path to veganism was anxiety about climate change. Learning more about industrial agriculture and how animals are "processed" only helped my motivation, but climate anxiety was the trigger. Switching to a plant based diet alone is not enough...
  2. Emma JC

    News Vegan 2019 video

    @Lou already posted this in another thread but I fear it may have been lost in the shuffle - I finally watched it just now and it is a great compilation of the amazing changes that have happened this year. This video will make you feel happy and encouraged and hopeful for the future and I...
  3. JessikaM

    Plant Based Diets Can Feed More People Than Animal Based Diets?

    Why aren't there global strikes for this??? I want to see strikes similar to Fridays For Future, but for Ending Global Hunger also. Strikes for a plant based diet to be adopted in oder to support the end of hunger in the world. What do y'all think??
  4. Second Summer

    School Strike for Climate (Skolstrejk för klimatet)

    1 year ago, a Swedish schoolgirl skipped school to go and protest against climate inaction in front of the Swedish parliament ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/49405357
  5. Second Summer

    IPCC calls for reduced meat consumption, changes to land use, agriculture

    More: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02409-7 (8. Aug. 2019)
  6. Second Summer

    Video: George Monbiot on climate change and capitalism

    George Monbiot says it well in this short clip from Frankie Boyle's New World Order (11th April 2019): He's right, of course. A goal of perpetual economic growth is a recipe for disaster. We urgently need a better way to measure human welfare than GDP.
  7. Second Summer

    Extinction Rebellion demands action, London week-long disruption

    More: Thousands join Extinction Rebellion protests across London (15. April 2019)
  8. Second Summer

    NO World’s largest sovereign wealth fund divests from oil & gas exploration

    Source: Norway's $1tn wealth fund to divest from oil and gas exploration (8. March 2019)
  9. Second Summer

    The Planetary Health Diet

    Source: Meat, veg, nuts - a diet designed to feed 10bn (17. Jan. 2019) The diet has been developed by a group of 37 scientists in the EAT/Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health.
  10. Second Summer

    BBC: environmental impact of plant vs dairy milks

    More: Climate change: Which are the best vegan milks? (9. Jan. 2019) Some quite positive coverage here, by none other than the eminent BBC. The article shows greenhouse gas emissions, land and water requirements for producing various plant milks and dairy milk. The National Sheep Association...
  11. J

    Dairy or chicken

    Hi, I have recently become vegetarian, primarily over environmental concerns. I would like to eventually transition to being vegan but for now I am just vegetarian. I have read that the dairy industry produces more CO2 emissions than that of chicken. If I had to have one of dairy or chicken...
  12. Vegan Dogs

    Climate change un urgent warning.

    Climate change un urgent warning...meat and animal agriculture the leading cause but media avoiding Environmental and Climate change issues...warning out again today in the media...but not clear enough statements of TRUTHS about COMMON SENSE EASY FACTS that ANIMAL AGRICULTURE causes MORE...
  13. Second Summer

    IPCC special report: impact of global warming of 1.5C

    The world is heading for very dangerous warming, but keeping below the 1.5C limit is going to require urgent worldwide efforts and cooperation. Everyone needs to do their part, from national governments down to the individual. So, what can we as individuals do, besides pressure our governments...
  14. robert99

    Climate Change trends- Break records

    Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: 2016 climate trends continue to break records Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally in the modern temperature record, which dates to 1880, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space...
  15. Second Summer

    Largest US coal mining company funded heart and soul of climate denial

    More: Biggest US coal company funded dozens of groups questioning climate change (13. June 2016) What is interesting is the scale of their climate denial funding. Also, I note that Richard Berman of "PeTA kills animals" and Center for Consumer Freedom fame was on their pay list.