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Responsible Travel
Environment & cost effective solutions for
reduction of CO2 emissions
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You can compensate the CO2 emmisions of your flights with
organisations like ClimateCare and GreenSeat, but there are
more cost and travel effective solutions.
First interesting to know is that:
1) the livestock sector is a mayor player in climate change,
responsible for 18% of greenhouse emissions measured in CO2
equivalent; this is a 40% higher share than the transport
sector (FAO, 2006),
2) livestock is the largest user of land in the world amounting
to one third of all the land on the planet (FAO, 2006),
3) of all the deforested land in the Amazon basin, 70% is
covered by pastures for cattle (FAO, 2006),
4) production of meat needs 5 to 27 times more water per gram
protein than grain (Reijnders & Soret, 2003),
5) the average conversion of plant based protein to animal
protein is 10 to 1, implying that you need 10 kg of grain
to produce 1 kg of meat (Reijnders & Soret, 2003),
6) the US livestock population consumes more then 7 times
as much grain as is consumed directly by the American population;
the amount of grains fed to USA livestock is sufficient to
feed 840 million people on plant-based diet (Pimentel & Pimentel,
2003),
7) one day of average meat consumption emits the same as 24
km driving by car; the replacement of meat only one day per
week on year basis saves the same amount of CO2 as a return
travel from Amsterdam to Berlin; replacement of meat for plant
based protein, 2 or 3 days per week on year basis saves much
more (VU, 2007), etc etc...
The Free University in Amsterdam has calculated that 18% of
the CO2 emissions worldwide is from the meat industry, and
that if a population of 16 million people would not consume
meat for 3 days a week in a year, it has the same effect of
taking out 3 million cars from the traffic; if it would be
for 5 days a week, we would save 32 million returnflights
from Amsterdam to Nice (2 return tickets per person)...
"Small changes in our attitude can make a big difference"
We Love our Planet, it could be a paradise...
You do not have to pay anything extra, you only have to act
by reducing your meat consumption: it is for the wellbeing
of our Planet and our future generations...
If you like to recieve a factsheet, with scientific references,
about the effects of cattle raising on our natural resources
worldwide, please contact us by mentioning "factsheet", it
is very interesting material just released.
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