By UK Climate Change Committee Demands People Eat Less Meat, Fly Less, Buy Electric Vehicles
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The United Kingdom’s Climate Change Committee has called for society-wide behavioural modification to meet the government’s green agenda goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century.
Despite the UK accounting for less than one per cent of global emissions, official advice to the government from the Climate Change Committee (CCC), a quango established under the previous Labour government in 2008, argued that British citizens will need to eat at least 260 grams less meat per week in order to meet planned emissions reductions.
The independent non-departmental public body said in its “seventh carbon budget” this week that this would equate to around two large doner kebabs, two 6oz steaks, or two cooked breakfasts.
“We are absolutely not saying everyone needs to be vegan. But we do expect to see a shift in dietary habits,” Emily Nurse, head of net zero at the Climate Change Committee, said per The Guardian.
The government should also seek to disincentivise the public from flying internationally, claiming that the aviation industry accounts for a growing area of carbon emissions… Read Full Article >
