Salvation from climate change in a vat

Vegetarianism and veganism alone will not solve the problem because they still depend on growing crops on the land, and also because people are very conservative about diet.

Next to burning fossil fuels, the biggest cause of anthropogenic (human-caused) greenhouse gas emissions is agriculture—and more than half of all food-related greenhouse gas emissions come from producing meat.Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 7, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—“We are putting a final end to the fossil era,” said Denmark’s climate minister, Dan Jorgensen, last week. What he meant was that the European Union’s biggest oil and gas producer is officially getting out of the petrochemical business after 80 ...

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