You Can Save This Polar Bear…

Rapid cli­mate change is oc­cur­ring now. Just have a look at what’s go­ing on around the world! Ice caps are melt­ing faster, our sea lev­els are ris­ing, weather pat­terns are chang­ing and the earth is quick­ly warm­ing up. Its ef­fects are fast be­com­ing one of the great­est threats fac­ing our plan­et in the 21st cen­tu­ry.

There is over­whelm­ing sci­en­tif­ic consen­sus that cli­mate change is caused by hu­mans, and one of our most de­struc­tive ac­tiv­i­ties is con­sum­ing an­i­mal prod­ucts. A re­port on cli­mate change just re­leased by the Unit­ed Na­tions (UN) con­cludes that we need a glob­al shift to­wards a ve­g­an di­et to save the world from hunger and the worst im­pacts of cli­mate change.

The re­port states:

A sub­s­tan­tial re­duc­tion of [cli­mate change] im­pacts would on­ly be pos­si­ble with a sub­s­tan­tial world­wide di­et change, away from an­i­mal prod­ucts.

Not on­ly do meat, dairy and egg in­dus­tries cause un­told an­i­mal suf­fer­ing, they are al­so wreak­ing hav­oc on the earth. One ex­am­ple of this is that a ve­g­an di­et re­quires around 1,100 litres of wa­ter per day whereas a meat based di­et re­quires over 15,000 litres of wa­ter per day! (Frances Moore Lap­pé, Di­et for a Small Plan­et).

Take ac­tion for the plan­et – the fu­ture is in our hands. And what a bet­ter day to make th­ese changes than to­day, World En­vi­ron­ment Day. Your lifestyle choic­es can make a dif­fer­­ence.