Save the planet?

With the life threatening catastrophes happening all around the Earth and global warming approaching, human beings have realized the statement regarding the end of their civilization on this planet might soon become a reality. The leaders of the leading countries are currently trying to compromise on their responsibilities in slowing the effect of global warming by holding a series of incessant international workshops and so called “the G8 summit”. The main and mutual target achieved is to reduce their massive carbon dioxide emission respectively, for example, China should attempt to reduce 50% of that by taking appropriate and urgent incentives by the year 2020 if I’m not mistaken. However this could undoubtedly bar the countries involved from achieving a new height in terms of economic development. When each of them is suspicious about the happening of possible circumstances that some of their “alliance” might be trying to opt for violating the agreement made to overtake the others economically, the compromise is at stake at this very moment where global warming time bomb is on the verge to have entirely exploded. It seems that all of us have been brainwashed that the green house gases emitted by burning fuels do all the matters. We are encouraged to carpool, use public transports and so on, we point our fingers to car and factory exhausts when we are asked about the factors contributing to global warming. Miserably, most of us have omitted a greatest approach we could practice to tackle this existing yet “hard-to-eradicate” problem, which is just very simple – become a vegetarian.

Although I always remain sceptical towards all kinds of statistics and researches made to draw a conclusion proving something the professionals intended to, there is one I would like to refer assuming it is credible – if we make use of all the crops as the source of human food, no one on this planet would starve, even if we don’t have those harvesting machines. To elaborate on it for those who never came across with this, I would like to tell you, our food is turned into meat in large ratio. Why? In general, crop such as wheat is used to feed poultry, across the trophic level, approximately 90% of the energy would be lost, therefore we have wasted 90% of the energy that could potentially be supplied to ourselves. However you might wonder how the lost in energy could make sense with solving global warming. Now there is another research showing the carbon dioxide exhaled by poultry is surprisingly greater than the emission by vehicles in the world. Personally I don’t like to justify something using results of research, put the deduction aside, the remaining possibilities are what we could reflect on. Being a vegetarian is not merely confined in religious practice, it is a potential way by which human can really save our environment. How if the government starts encouraging the residents by setting a day in every week to take vegetarian food?

Frankly, I’m not a vegetarian, but a vegetarian-to-be, not sure when to become full time vegetarian. I take vegetables whenever possible, and it gives a healthier lifestyle =)