An Innovative Approach To Climate Change

There is an innovative approach to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, and a simple solution to reducing climate change, hunger, poverty, improving food security and nutrition, sustainable agriculture, human health, water, sanitation, sustainable consumption, and achieving justice for all inhabitants of planet Earth.

Scientific facts prove that the main cause of global warming melting polar ice caps and raising sea water levels is methane.  Methane traps heat in the atmosphere much more effectively than carbon dioxide.  It is the meat and dairy based diet which is directly responsible for the impending disaster we are currently facing.  Rainforests are being cut and burned down to provide grazing land and land to grow crops to feed to animals raised for food, also contributes to climate change.

There is copious documentation that transitioning from the traditional fiber rich plant-based diet to the fat and cholesterol filled meat and dairy based diet causes human mortality and morbidity from heart disease, cancer and diabetes and antibiotic resistance.  Pollution of air, water, and land, misuse of scarce resources such as land and water, habitat destruction, species extinction are also associated with the meat and dairy based diet.

There is a deep injustice in rising waters.  Those who are most responsible are least effected.  Some individuals are benefiting at the expense of others, as in slavery years ago.  Speciesism is using some individuals for the sole benefit of others.  They have no rights of their own.  The UN needs a Convention Against Speciesism to stop the injustice of rising water, unsustainable practices, and other cruelties, and provide justice for the exploited.  Vegan International, www.VeganInternational.org, has applied for UN ECOSOC Consultative status, and is proposing a UN Convention Against Speciesism.