4 thoughts on “Livestock is the biggest cause of climate change”
The anthropogenice extinction: One study (http://usat.ly/VpWhx4) is about sorting out the man caused and natural global warming, and corroborates a body of research, 97% of scientists agree, abou mankind caused global warming since the Industrial age and accelerating dramatically in the last 40 years. We are also destroying flora and fauna with one in three of each threatened or endangered. Animal farming keeps expanding toward an anthropogenic extinction: We are overeating the animals, land and sea. We abuse and overuse land, exhaust the resources, cut down forests, pollute land and sea and atmosphere, but we will not change our ways, short range hedonism about life with blinders rules. The conservative attitude emphasizes dollars now only thinking of ourselves and not much else. Animal farming contributes heavily to greenhouse gases, plus it is unsustainable, “eating” up more and more land, encroaching on and displacing wildlife and wilderness, cutting down forests and jungles, destroying wildlife habitat, fragmenting habitats, polluting streams and rivers and oceans. The way we are going, this could be The Anthropogenic Era of the next mass extinction. Humans kill 27 million animals daily for food, not counting the sea life. We are overfishing the oceans, over hunting the wild , eating ourselves off the planet, polluting air and waters, and with ever increasing population, over 7 billion now growing to 10-11 billion by mid to end of century, accelerating it all. We are destroying biodiversity and the wild. We are not yet asking ourselves how can we live with wildlife instead of against it and farming it for sports killing, distorting the health (balanced ecology) of it in the process. Wildlife needs maybe half the planet and corridors of connections. Half of wildlife has disappeared in the past forty years. We cannot seem to help ourselves, we are a destructive species as per the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still with Keanu Reeves wherein aliens come to save the Earth from mankind.
I have often gotten the response of, “I like the meat”, when asked why they hunt. Other rationalizations are control, management of wildlife populations, and of course sportsmen attitude of the wholesomeness of killing wildlife for fun, and of course they have to kill the the predators so there will be more killing available to them
“We cannot seem to help ourselves. . . .” Thus, the hominid spark of intelligence flares, destroys the grandest level of diversity Earth has yet achieved, and fades. Some humans will survive to begin the next cycle of destruction spiraling downward until the planet can no longer sustain large animals like us. We can hope that before the sun begins to become unstable (it is about half way there now) evolution can produce a new and better intelligence that will have sufficient breadth and depth to understand the ecological consequences of its actions.
Exposing the Big Game 
The anthropogenice extinction: One study (http://usat.ly/VpWhx4) is about sorting out the man caused and natural global warming, and corroborates a body of research, 97% of scientists agree, abou mankind caused global warming since the Industrial age and accelerating dramatically in the last 40 years. We are also destroying flora and fauna with one in three of each threatened or endangered. Animal farming keeps expanding toward an anthropogenic extinction: We are overeating the animals, land and sea. We abuse and overuse land, exhaust the resources, cut down forests, pollute land and sea and atmosphere, but we will not change our ways, short range hedonism about life with blinders rules. The conservative attitude emphasizes dollars now only thinking of ourselves and not much else. Animal farming contributes heavily to greenhouse gases, plus it is unsustainable, “eating” up more and more land, encroaching on and displacing wildlife and wilderness, cutting down forests and jungles, destroying wildlife habitat, fragmenting habitats, polluting streams and rivers and oceans. The way we are going, this could be The Anthropogenic Era of the next mass extinction. Humans kill 27 million animals daily for food, not counting the sea life. We are overfishing the oceans, over hunting the wild , eating ourselves off the planet, polluting air and waters, and with ever increasing population, over 7 billion now growing to 10-11 billion by mid to end of century, accelerating it all. We are destroying biodiversity and the wild. We are not yet asking ourselves how can we live with wildlife instead of against it and farming it for sports killing, distorting the health (balanced ecology) of it in the process. Wildlife needs maybe half the planet and corridors of connections. Half of wildlife has disappeared in the past forty years. We cannot seem to help ourselves, we are a destructive species as per the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still with Keanu Reeves wherein aliens come to save the Earth from mankind.
I have often gotten the response of, “I like the meat”, when asked why they hunt. Other rationalizations are control, management of wildlife populations, and of course sportsmen attitude of the wholesomeness of killing wildlife for fun, and of course they have to kill the the predators so there will be more killing available to them
“Wholesomeness,” yeah, right.
“We cannot seem to help ourselves. . . .” Thus, the hominid spark of intelligence flares, destroys the grandest level of diversity Earth has yet achieved, and fades. Some humans will survive to begin the next cycle of destruction spiraling downward until the planet can no longer sustain large animals like us. We can hope that before the sun begins to become unstable (it is about half way there now) evolution can produce a new and better intelligence that will have sufficient breadth and depth to understand the ecological consequences of its actions.