Sunday, September 23, 2012

What's left to exploit???

Dear Vegans, here's some interesting analysis...

http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/um-professor-running-says-only-percent-of-planet-s-plant/article_d14373e0-0463-11e2-99ef-0019bb2963f4.html

""I'm arguing that we don't have all that much unused capacity left in the global biosphere," Running said Friday. "Humanity already uses 30 to 40 percent of the global production in various ways right now".

All this while we're heading to 30% more people with 100% (or more!) of our current desire for Meat, Fish, Forest Products, etc. 

As I've maintained many times here, going vegan wouldn't stave off for one second our probable demise, 
we're already using too much of the entire planet's production of protein and fiber!

Here's an interesting WHO chart...we're not only growing in numbers, we're growing in calories consumed per day at the same time...

Table 1. Global and regional per capita food consumption (kcal per capita per day)

Region

1964 - 1966

1974 - 1976

1984 - 1986

1997 - 1999

2015

2030

World

2358

2435

2655

2803

2940

3050

Developing countries

2054

2152

2450

2681

2850

2980

Near East and North Africa

2290

2591

2953

3006

3090

3170

Sub-Saharan Africaa

2058

2079

2057

2195

2360

2540

Latin America and the Caribbean

2393

2546

2689

2824

2980

3140

East Asia

1957

2105

2559

2921

3060

3190

South Asia

2017

1986

2205

2403

2700

2900

Industrialized countries

2947

3065

3206

3380

3440

3500

Transition countries

3222

3385

3379

2906

3060

3180



We'll eat ourselves right off the planet even before the planet rejects our ability to live!    

"Soylent green - it's PEOPLE!"

--
Frish

Why "protect women's fertility"?

Just because we can, why do we?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120922085845.htm

--
Frish