Why we have to reduce our meat intake

Have just read the book “We are the weather” by Jonathan Safran Foer, a fantastic and well-written book on what one best can do to save our planet.

This book is a book I hoped would have written, if I could write, Jonathan Safran Foer can, so he wrote it instead. That is enough. Somebody has to write it.

Many environmental protests and environment savers build their fight for the saving of the earth on guilt and stupid actions like blocking the traffic and fighting against cars and aircraft.

I have always thought that was the wrong way to go.

Cars and aircraft are here to stay, we can use them less than we do now, but we can’t remove them. Not all cars, they are needed now and in the future for transport.

What we can do is find better and cleaner ways to power them, and that is going on. If we can reduce the carbon dioxide the cars produce by building and driving them they aren’t the biggest issue for our planet.

Electric cars are one way, perhaps you say.

I say no. Not yet.

Producing batteries for electric cars are not environmentally healthy, producing an electric car makes a higher fingerprint on the environment than producing a car on gasoline or diesel.

Driving an electric car is better for our Earth.

But!

That depends on how the energy is produced for the batteries, still, there is a lot of energy produced from coal in the world and coal is not producing any healthy energy. Coal has a high environmental impact.

We have to lower the emission of carbon dioxide, that is a fact.

The greenhouse effect depends on that.

But not only the carbon dioxide from transport. And we have to transport ourselves and other things.

30 years ago I decided to not eat meat, it was a health decision only, I tried to reduce my meat consumption for a while and realized that I was feeling better. I wasn’t so tired after a meal and had more energy.

So I chose to quit eating meat. I have never missed meat since then. Not at all.

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