In
an interview featured on the front page of the United Kingdom's
Tuesday, October 27 issue of The Times, Lord Nicholas Stern, a global
authority on climate change, stated that people need to consider going
vegetarian to overcome climate change.
Lord
Stern, who has previously served as Chief Economist of the World Bank
and as advisor to the United Kingdom, published the Stern Review, an
analysis of the economics of climate change.
He is now warning
that unless actions change, the future holds temperature rises of five
degrees Celsius, which will cause Southern Europe to become a desert and
require hundreds of millions of people to move, leading to global
conflict.
Explaining that such a crisis would come very quickly, he stated, “
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A
vegetarian diet is better.”
Our
heartfelt thanks, Lord Stern, for your forthright call for the shift to
a veg diet. We applaud your courage and honesty, and pray that climate
change expert and leaders around the globe join in the planet-saving
vegan
diet. The benefits and planetary need for a plant-based lifestyle have
been affirmed on many occasions by Supreme Master Ching Hai, as during
an April 2009 videoconference in South Korea.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
Some governments already have policies in place and are encouraging
people to go green.But my only concern is that the changes are not
happening quickly enough.
We really need to stop global warming
now, like yesterday, because I’m sorry to say that while all these green
changes are good, there is still one action that must be on the top of
the list, the most important one, which, once again, is the vegan diet.
The
greenest of all the green policy, the greenest of all the green action,
the most compassionate, the most heroic, the lifesaving action, the vegan
diet. It will eliminate methane, one of the most heat-trapping
greenhouse gases. And this will cool the planet the fastest and give us
more time to exercise our green policy
or finding better technology.
This is the most valuable step, the vegan
step, that the governments could make, could encourage, could pass into
law, could inform the people at large. This is the realistic way, the
only way that I know, the only way that I see that we can save the
planet right now.