At long last, my journey is over
a month without meat never felt so long
While being vegetarian was, interesting, it was not exactly my forte. This is not to say that I wont be sustainable, it just means that I will have to try a bit harder to make up for eating meat. Anyway back to my month without meat. I compiled all the results from my Do One Thing (DOT) project into a google spreadsheet, and the result are surprising. I saved approximately 15$ worth of meat, which does not sound like much, but over a year it adds up to 180$, which still is not much, but over you’re lifetime, you could save thousands of dollars. Probably even more, because I was not that diligent in recording exact prices. The amount of carbon you save from entering the atmosphere is the cherry on top. More like the whole cake. Going vegetarian for a month saves ~200 pounds of carbon entering the atmosphere. 200 pounds of carbon is equal to driving a car for 3 hours straight, having a 13 watt light bulb on for 291 days straight, having a 42 inch TV on for 42 days straight, and you could meet the energy demands of an average household for 3 days! If you did not eat meat for a year, you would save 2500 pounds of carbon, which is equal to driving a car for 45 hours straight, having a 13 watt light bulb on for 10 years, and leaving a 42 inch TV on for 284 days straight. And all of this is based on my data, and as I said earlier I’m not the most diligent recorder of information. According to the BBC one third of the worlds anthropogenic (man made) greenhouse gas emissions are caused by agriculture, more specifically, meat.
According to the BBC one third of the worlds anthropogenic (man made) greenhouse gas emissions are caused by agriculture, more specifically, meat. The BBC also estimated that if the entire world went vegetarian by 2050, greenhouse gas emissions would drop by 60 percent. 60! If greenhouse gas emissions dropped by 60% global warming would no longer be the serious threat it is today. Global warming is real people, and if we don’t do something, anything to stop it, sea levels will rise, and millions of plant, people, and animals will die. The planet would become somewhere much harder to live, so we all must contribute something. All you have to do is go vegetarian, or bike to work, or bus, or buy solar panels for your house. Little things like that could be the difference between our planet dying, or saving our planet.
