Below is a link to a short 6 minute talk by Robert Goodland, a tropical ecologist, who served as the World Bank Group's environmental adviser for 23 years. He feels there is an urgent need to stop deforestation. As you have read, raising and eating livestock is not sustainable. The livestock sector is responsible for 51% of greenhouse gas formation. According to Mr. Goodland, we have a very small window of time to reverse this. The first tipping point will be massive flooding, possibly as early as 2017.
The first thing we must do is decrease livestock production to free up food growth for people, to feed the expected future 10 billion humans and environmental refugees on earth by the end of the century.
Secondly, in parallel, we must plant more trees to sequester carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.
Thirdly, it is essential to continue the rapid conversion from fossil fuel economies to renewable energy, but this will take far too long by itself.
He feels, and I quote, that "we have no option. We must do this or we will be wiped out as a civilization."
Please take this information to heart, act on it, and spread it to everyone you know.
http://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/videos/advanced-study-weekend-experts/robert-goodland-deforestation/
As a side note, this is interesting. Bicycles are outselling new cars in almost every European country.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/10/24/240493422/in-most-every-european-country-bikes-are-outselling-cars
Looking together in the same direction.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.
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