Of course, what they mean by meat intake, is that you need to be forced to do this in one fashion or another. They’ll use regulation, raising the price of meat, and awareness and shaming campaigns, but, won’t voluntarily reduce their own meat consumption
(Red Orbit) A proposed reduction in the world’s carbon emissions set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) can only be met if the developed world cuts down meat consumption by 50 percent per person, according to new research from a Massachusetts-based climate initiative organization.
Scientists from the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), located in Falmouth, Mass., found in a new study that the world needs to not only cut meat consumption by 50 percent, but to also cut emissions by an equal amount by 2050, if we are to reduce the most dangerous of greenhouse gases (nitrous oxide – N2O) in our atmosphere.
N2O is the third highest contributor of climate change behind carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4); however, it is considered much more potent due to the fact it is an essential element in food production, meaning it cannot be controlled quite as easily as CO2 and CH4.
One of the top offenders of potent nitrous oxide is fertilizer used to grow crops in the agricultural industry. But because farming is much needed to feed the world’s growing population, which is projected to reach 9 billion by mid-century, it will be a difficult challenge to try to reduce the carbon footprint farming leaves on the world’s climate.
This story is making the rounds through both the legacy liberal media and Warmist blogs, but, interestingly, none of them are saying “I’ll help out by reducing my meat consumption.”
Davidson said such changes are dependent “not only on education about diet, but also on prices of meat. Some agricultural economists think that the price of meat is going to go way up, so that per capita consumption will go down, but those are highly uncertain projections.â€
So, they are going to nag you to death. And find ways to raise your prices.
(PS: I know the graphic is about methane, not NO2)
Oh, and it is already a BS study, since the #1 greenhouse gas is water vapor.
