The Amazon rainforest is on fire. By the end of the summer, scientists estimate about 440 billion tons of ice will have melted or calved off Greenland’s giant ice sheet. But there’s something each of us can do about it—and it begins at breakfast
A protester with a placard that reads"stop denying our planet is dying" joins a demonstration organised by climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion outside the Brazilian embassy in central London on August 23, 2019 calling on Brazil to actThe Amazon rainforest is on fire. Last month was the hottest on record. The first glacier has disappeared due to human activity. In India, a city the size of Manhattan just ran out of water.
Livestock production accounts for at least 51% of all greenhouse gases . Said another way, eating animals accounts for over half of all the climate carnage that we’re witnessing across the world. Most of the challenges we face around the world are difficult to solve through individual action. It’s hard to do much about the humanitarian crisis in Syria, or the detention centers at the border.
Animal agriculture is responsible for 90% of deforestation in the Amazon. It’s also the leading cause of methane and nitrous oxide emissions.
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