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Originally Posted by aberkok
This is exciting. It might be the most "legitimate" endorsement veganism has ever received (still waiting on Oprah).
A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today. As the global population surges towards a predicted 9.1 billion people by 2050, western tastes for diets rich in meat and dairy products are unsustainable, says the report from United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) international panel of sustainable resource management.
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I find it amazing that so many are so blind to what the REAL PROBLEM IS here.
The problem is not in anyone's diet, the REAL PROBLEM IS THE GROSS OVERPOPULATION OF THE PLANET! That is what is out of balance, and reducing population is the only long term sustainable (to us a popular buzzword) solution. Changing the world population into herd of rice and bean eaters will do nothing other than postpone the inevitable day of reckoning. And what about the increase in methane emissions from the human cattle?
As usual, those from the crowded, overpopulated, polluted, (because of overpopulation) poverty stricken, (because of overpopulation) crime-ridden, (because of overpopulation) urban areas will want to force a solution to THEIR PROBLEM onto the rural areas whose only real problems are caused by urban offal.
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Originally Posted by aberkok
I am being blunt because there's a lot of anger in me this year. We keep hearing of environmental disasters every year hoping someone will clean it up, and inevitably it does... but to what end? Where is this all heading? I've drawn my line in the sand and sometimes I feel like a kook for doing so, but a UN endorsement of this lifestyle is reassuring.
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There is a lot of anger in me (and others, I'm sure) that American family farmers should be asked to change their diet because someplace like Indonesia is already populated to three times what their own ecosystem can sustain, and is unable to deal with that.
Continued overpopulation will eventually push all or most of the world into anarchy, and although some cheer its approach, in anarchy nothing is sustainable.
Lindy