To Be Green or Not To Be: Can a vegan diet save our planet from climate change?
Photo by Ella Olsson For most people, a vegan diet will sound daunting and unnecessary because they have been conditioned their whole lives to eat meat. However, going vegan could just be the key to saving Earth from the doom that is climate change. To illustrate the benefits of veganism, we have to look at the negative environmental impacts of livestock agriculture first, anything from meat, fish, and dairy production. As shown in a chart created by researchers Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser, meat production has grown exponentially over the past 60 years, contributing to an acceleration of global warming. As a result, natural disasters like floods, storms and wildfires are more likely to happen these days which are especially detrimental to those in developing countries. According to a New York Times article , a fourth of Earth’s total greenhouse gas emissions are currently due to livestock agriculture. In fact, not only does the meat industry contribute to climate change, but also...