In an interview featured on the front page of the United Kingdom's Tuesday October 27 issue of The Times, Lord Nicholas Stern, a leading authority on global warming, said that people need to consider going vegetarian to overcome climate change.

Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, has previously served as Chief Economist of the World Bank and as advisor to the United Kingdom. He is now I.G. Patel Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.

Lord Stern’s warning is that unless actions change, the future holds temperature rises of five degrees Celsius, which will cause Southern Europe to become a desert and require hundreds of millions of people to move, leading to global conflict. Explaining that such a crisis would come very quickly, he stated, “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.” Direct emission of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Methane is 72 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas.

Our heartfelt thanks, Lord Stern, for your forthright call for the shift to a veg diet. We pray that climate change experts and leaders around the globe join in the planet-saving vegan diet.

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6891362.ece

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