Fish and Chimps: PETA Europe's Blog | Day Two: ‘Meat’s Not Green’ Week

It’s Day Two of our ‘Meat’s Not Green’ Week, and following on from yesterday’s shower-shenanigans, we’re all still geared up to spread the word far and wide that raising animals for food is the number one cause of climate change. Not to mention the frightening consequences of climate change, such as droughts, floods, hurricanes, rising sea levels and disease outbreaks. And it’s not just PETA that has something to say about the environmental damage caused by the production of meat and animal products – a United Nations report declared that the meat industry produces more greenhouse-gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world combined.

Now let’s take a moment to fully appreciate what that means… So all of those holidays to Barbados, all of those cars clogging up the motorways, all of those tankers shipping goods back and forth across the oceans, all of those combined aren’t as bad as the meat industry.

I'll take the "under": Greenpeace UK: Will this video "turn 3 million people into climate activists"?

Scientists are sounding more and more alarms about the fate of the ice caps, the acidification of our oceans, the loss of our equatorial rainforests and the consequences all these things will have on low-lying countries, on our health, on our ways of raising food, and the foundations of our civilization. There are ample reasons for despair.

But many years ago, one of our activists bagged a quote from another famous activist, and summed up the Greenpeace ethos: "The optimism of the action is better than the the pessimism of the thought."

If you agree, we want you, and 2,999,999 people like you to sign up as climate activists.

When the UN Climate summit convenes in Copenhagen this December, delegates there will be deciding the fate of the Earth. It's looking more and more likely they will bring us a lot of hot air, not a cooler planet.