Slowing Global Warming, Vegetarianism Saves the Planet The Arctic’s ice cap is melting at an accelerated rate, and the ice in the oceans is disappearing faster than ever before. This is the clearest sign yet of global warming. America’s leading climatologists warn that we have only 10 years to save the planet. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) subordinate research institutions used different satellite monitoring technology, the results of which all indicate that in the past two years, with the disappearance of the Arctic ice cap, some places have become rough seas, since 1979, when satellite observations of the Arctic cap began, the average annual melting rate of 0.15%, in the past two winters, its melting rate suddenly In the past two winters, it has suddenly increased to 6 percent. This change is deeply worrying to scientists and all reasonable people because it far exceeds the rate of melting of the Arctic ice cap due to global warming that had been predicted in the past using computer models. According to the original projections, the Arctic ice cap disappears completely by 2070 if there is no intervention in the changing climate. But if this new accelerating trend continues, the Arctic ice cap will disappear decades earlier! The implications of this change are enormous. First, polar bears, which depend on the Arctic ice cap for seal predation, would become extinct, including those polar bear cubs that are now in their juvenile years. Second, a destructive (feedback) mechanism would accelerate global warming. With the disappearance of the white ice caps that reflect sunlight, the darker waters of the Arctic Ocean would absorb so much of the sun’s heat that the weather around the world would become hotter. Most importantly, new trends tell that climate change is proceeding much faster than scientists originally anticipated. Not only will the melting of the Arctic ice cap itself raise global sea levels, huge icebergs floating in the sea are already contributing to sea level rise. The glaciers that cover Greenland and the Antarctic landmass are so massive that the rising temperatures that are causing the Arctic ice cap to shrink are also affecting these ice sheets, and they are beginning to melt as well. If the West Antarctic ice sheet collapses completely, a 5-meter rise in sea level in many parts of the world would be submerged. Raising meat-supplying animals is the biggest culprit in climate change How can we tackle the growing global warming problem? British Environment Minister Ben Bradshaw (Ben). Ben Bradshaw recently warned the public at the launch of the UK government’s new public services website (Directgov) that if climate change continues to spiral out of control, the British public could revert to the World War II era of food rationing, Bradshaw pointed out that the greenhouse effect of the food production process is equal to that of private transportation, and that dietary consumption is the most important factor in stabilizing global warming. Removing meat from the diet is a long-term solution to stabilizing climate change. Reducing the impact of animal farming is one of the key focuses of environmental policy. Animal agriculture accounts for 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than all cars, trucks, boats, airplanes and trains in the world. Animal waste produces methane 23 times more than methane produced by transportation; it also produces nitrous oxide, 296 times more than nitrous oxide produced by transportation; and it also produces ammonia, which contributes to acid rain, acidifying the ecosystem. Almost two-thirds of global ammonia emissions are from livestock (UN report) In order to satisfy the appetite for meat, more energy and land needs to be consumed to raise a variety of livestock and poultry. According to estimates by nutritionists at Harvard University in the United States, it takes eight pounds of cereals for feed to produce one pound of beef or lamb. In other words, if Americans consume 10% less meat in the last 10 years, the grain saved can feed 600 million people. According to statistics, in order to raise livestock to consume more than 2/3 of the arable land; the earth’s man-made production of methane, animal husbandry accounted for 16%, and methane is one of the main gases that produce the greenhouse effect. Comprehensively, the production of meat, packaging, transportation and cooking consumes much more energy than plant foods, and its role in triggering the Earth’s greenhouse effect accounted for as much as 25% of human behavior, while the greenhouse effect caused by aircraft accounted for only 2%. It can be argued that meat consumption is another major contributor to climate anomalies found after transportation and housing energy consumption. Those who don’t know that a vegetarian diet is the most rational and healthy diet for mankind may be concerned, but history has a clear lesson to dispel any doubts: during the two world wars, the vegetarian movement was strongly promoted. The Danish government, fearing a food crisis due to the German blockade, asked the Danish Vegetarian Society to devise a food co-ordination program, and as a result, the health of the Danish people during the war was greatly improved, and the death rate was greatly reduced. At that time, the average citizen ate nothing more than pumpernickel bread, oatmeal, potatoes, vegetables and dairy products. In the Second World War, Norway also had the same experience, they had no choice but to reduce the consumption of meat, grains and vegetables, such as a large increase, and at the same time national deaths due to circulatory diseases greatly reduced, after the war Norway returned to the pre-war diet, the death rate of circulatory diseases back to the pre-war level. In contrast, after the Second World War, the standard of living of the people of many countries improved so rapidly that meat and poultry became their main foodstuffs, and this new dietary structure was popularized in many countries, but the incidence of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity in these countries rose sharply, which was not expected.