LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
VEGGIE DIETS AND GLOBAL WARMING
Kudos on giving some well-needed attention to "Global Warming and Diet" in your, as always, excellent Issue 1 2015. With 2014 being the warmest year since temperature records have been kept in 1880, rapidly melting polar ice caps and glaciers, an increase in the number and severity of heat waves, droughts, wildfires, storms, and floods, and atmospheric CO2 at the highest level in human history, your coverage is very timely. And, with increasing evidence of the major contributions of animal-based agriculture to climate change, including the 2006 UN Food and Agriculture report, "Livestock's Long Shadow," indicating that the livestock sector emits more greenhouse gases (in CO2 equivalents) than is emitted by all the cars, planes, ships, and other means of transportation worldwide combined, your article reinforcing the dietary connection to climate change is important.
Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D., via e-mail
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