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Give up meat to save the planet
 In an interview with The Times, 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."Yaas, yaas. You are vegetarian, I presume? "I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student." Gives you a dreadful hangover these days, right? Ah, lost youth. But duty and right thinking beckon, I'm sure. "People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food." Is it charred on the outside and cool pink in the center? Lord Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank and now I. G. Patel Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, warned that British taxpayers would need to contribute about £3 billion a year by 2015 to help poor countries to cope with the inevitable impact of climate change. Patel, Patel. Sounds Indian. That would be one of the countries under consideration, no? Up to 20,000 delegates from 192 countries are due to attend the UN conference in the Danish capital. Its aim is to forge a deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to prevent an increase in global temperatures of more than 2 degrees centigrade. 20,000! I assume no meat is being served. Har Har. Talk about your carbon footprint. I suppose they'll complain about everything except the food, wine, accomodations, and conference air transport. Haven't all these delegates heard about video conferencing ... Posted by: KBK 2009-10-27 |
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