I live in a town with one of the highest amounts of pollen in the US. Obviously this means there are a lot of trees, so I came to enjoy the hundred or more year old trees in my neighborhood. Now hearing about the largest mangrove forest in the entire world, destroyed and polluted for just two coal fired power plants, makes me wonder: Why?
A couple days ago I was playing basketball on my street when a motorbike louder than a car came blasting up my hill. It smelt awful and it must have took 10 minutes before the smell finally passed. My neighbor yelled from across the street "Smell bad?". My neighbor who is a retired police man built him and his wife electric motorbikes so they could go on a bike ride and bike up the hill we live on by using the electric motor. I replied "Yeah" and he told me that was called a two stroke or two cycle engine. I stopped shooting hoops and started to research about two stroke engines, I soon found out there was an alternative called a four stroke engine.
Have you ever read the “Wait! Don’t bite into that burger!” article? It’s real short; one of our first articles. It is actually the only article we’ve written about animal agriculture, and it’s ten short sentences long. This is how much many environmental organizations care about animal agriculture, which is crazy. I just watched a documentary about animal agriculture, and this is insane: animal agriculture accounts for 51% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Let me say that again: 51%. And nobody has said a word. Why? Wouldn’t this be all over the headlines. Why are only a small fraction of environmental organizations focused on the leading cause of climate change? And what are the other impacts of the meat/dairy industry that society has been hiding?
Jeremy and I got the chance to speak in Corvallis Oregon tomorrow infront of youth to inspire them, teach them about climate change, and show them that age is no disability. Keep in mind these do go with slides and is a speech so I'm not saying it word for word. Hope you enjoy.
