Day 38: My beef with the Great Global Warming Debate, Part 2

Debating global warming wastes time that could be spent tackling the problem instead. One admirably solution-oriented group is staying above the fray -- and urging people to eat less meat.

Yesterday, I wrote about my disenchantment with the plummeted quality of the global warming debate, because it distracts well-meaning people from action that could address the problem. And I promised I’d dedicate some of the posts on this blog to solutions.

Here’s one I’ve recommitted to in my own life, thanks to a solution-oriented blog I’ve really been appreciating lately. Price of Meat appears to have a single mission, which it addresses in a highly focused and effective way: to suggest that people eat less meat to help address global warming. The authors write blog posts and tweet their message on Twitter in a non-confrontational, informative way. I say it’s effective because it’s worked for me: I am eating less meat — and no red meat at all — since discovering the site. 

As an appetizer, here’s #8 from their recent post revealing 10 “WTF” meat statistics:

Animals raised for food produce 1.4 billion metric tons of manure, which is 130 times more excrement than the entire human population put together, for a total of 87,000 pounds per second. This contributes to livestock’s total gas emissions which include 37% of all methane (20 times more powerful than CO2) and 65% of all nitrous oxide (296 times). (source:  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)

So, kudos to Price of Meat. You can visit their blog or follow them on Twitter at @priceofmeat.

Got good ideas for living in a way that honors the natural world? Please send them!