Climate Change - We are Toast or We can all go on a plant-based diet
Nothing short of a nuclear world war threatens our cherished way of life more than climate change. It is therefore not surprising that the most vociferous defenders of the comfortable assumptions that support the status quo tend to be those who profit the most from the existing set-up. These assumptions, already under severe strain from dire warnings by leading climate scientists, record-breaking ocean and air temperatures, melting ice, unabated deforestation, loss of species and calamitous weather events, are blown apart by Dr Stephen Emmott in his book TEN BILLION , Richard Oppenlander in Comfortably Unaware , Lester Brown in Full Planet, Empty Plates and J. Morris Hicks in Healthy Eating, Healthy World . Each of these books explains with stunning clarity how we are coming up against the limits of a sustainable food system, with continuing rapid population growth and industrialization carrying a real danger of irreversible environmental harms leading to runaway global warmin
