Uh-oh. Bad news from Great Britain. Meat is killing Mother Earth. Clogging up the old gal’s arteries and slowly but surely cutting off her blood supply.
As the Times UK reports:
Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”
Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas.
Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.
This from Lord Stern, perhaps the most appropriately named man on earth.
Source: Times UK
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Physicist Howard Hayden, is a staunch advocate of sound energy policy. Read his letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson for an excellent refutation of the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis:
http://www.stephankinsella.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/HaydenToJackson.pdf
Grist for the mill, as they say.
Climate change crisis is a great example of "opinion science" instead of real science. Politicians are crisis managers. And if there's no crisis, they'll manufacture one.
More of that nit-wit nanny state nonsense that fools and cowards follow...
Stern was one of the infamous 365 economists who early in Maggie Thatcher's premiership wrote to The Times telling us all that her monetary policy was hugeky dangerous and doomed to failure - just before we entered a golden few years of real, non-inflationary wealth. The man is as thick as a sack of spanners!
Wow you can't smoke, drink or eat meat with out paying some sort of massive fine to the nanny state. What is next "We have deleted all your Rolling Stones and Beatles .Mp3's the Emperor likes HipHop better."?