Read some interesting stuff in today's newspaper. About Lester Brown and Rajendra Pachauri.Lester Brown wrote about how we can 'save civilization'. It is basically a handbook, it sums up concrete measures that we (humanity) right now can start using. For example, we can save up to 25% of our electricity consumption by replacing the light bulbs in our homes with energy-saving ones. (Not that hard!) The book comprizes four goals: stabalizing the climate, stop population growth, eliminate poverty, and repare the worlds damaged ecosystem. If we fail to meet one of the goals we fail to meet the others as well. The result: ECONOMIC chaos.
What I found striking was that the cost of implementing this plan would be 1/6 of the worldwide military expenditure.... Saving the world for an amount of money 1/6 of the money we spend on weapons, fighting wars, killing each other, . . . Almost cynical....
http://www.earth-policy.org/
Mr. Pachauri suggests us all to eat less meat one measure to stop climate change. Nothing new of course, we all knew that already, right?! Right?! The thing is that Mr. Pachauri is chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Maybe we'll have to start taking these things serious soon.
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