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THE CLIMATE CRISIS ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

As everyone—at least those who truly care—knows, we are inching perilously close to a catastrophic global crisis and while governments and the world’s largest companies often focus more on greenwashing than on tangible, achievable solutions, is there a solution staring us right in the face?

There is one and it is a glaringly obvious solution to stemming climate change. Eating plants, not animals.

EMPTY TALK, EMPTY PROMISES

This fall leaders from around the world will attend two vitally important climate conferences. The first is the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Summit in New York City in September. The second is COP 28, the UN’s Climate Change Conference in Dubai in late November.

Leaders from around the world MUST ACT NOW on real climate solutions and the first of those planetary remedies should be a worldwide switch to a plant-based diet. Tragically, however, neither conference lists this critical issue as a main focus.

REAL CHANGE, REAL SOLUTIONS

A recent study from the Physicians Committee on Responsible Medicine stated that, “A global shift to a plant-based diet could reduce greenhouse gases caused by food production by 70% by 2050.”

In addition:

  • A plant-based world would require 75% less farmland than present (Vegconomist)
  • An average person who consumes a plant-based diet indirectly consumes nearly 600 gallons of water per day less than a person who eats the average American diet (National Geographic)
  • Alternative proteins can eliminate a major source of waterway pollutants, especially for areas with higher percentages of people of color (Good Food Institute)

Though this undeniable solution to the planet’s ills seems like a no-brainer, it faces challenges at these two upcoming conferences. COP28 has announced that they will not even discuss the adoption of a plant-based diet and lifestyle at the conference. Many critics of COP28 have complained about the lack of interest in finding real solutions and the fact that the conference is being held in a country that has faced multiple accusations of greenwashing. Also, the UNSDG Summit will “focus first and foremost on people and ways to meet their basic needs through the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.” There is no mention of how the global food system needs to be completely upended to meet that goal.

In 2015, the United Nations created 17 Sustainable Development Goals which are an urgent call for action by all countries in a global partnership, all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests. The recent Eat Differently campaign identified ELEVEN of the SEVENTEEN Sustainable Development Goals that would be significantly affected by the adoption of a plant-based diet.

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Eat Differently believes there is no more effective way to create real change in the health of our planet than by changing the world’s diet. Along with the rest of the world we are fed up with the talk and the greenwashing. To that we say ENOUGH and eat plants, not animals. Our planet hangs in the balance.

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