Refusal to allow the meat to 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
Baku, August 20 (AZERTAC)."People still like to eat sausages and other meat products rather than vegetables. However, it kills not only ourselves, but also the environment. A healthy diet will reduce the energy consumption for food production, as well as the amount of applied fertilizer on the fields. In addition, emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases from agriculture will decrease by one third, "- stated in the university. Professor Mathias Tsessner (Matthias Zessner) and his colleagues decided to "weigh" the environmental impact to the planet from humanity's transition to vegetarianism. The study authors found that the transition to a proper diet will reduce the area of farmland per each resident of Austria with 3.6 thousand square kilometers to 2.6. Since a large part in greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture, it would reduce and the greenhouse effect.
According to scientists, if it is "agricultural" emissions are about 890 kilograms of CO2 equivalent per person per year, after the transition to a "healthy diet" their number reduced to 580 kilograms. In addition, significantly reduced consumption of energy needed for food production - from 1.1 thousand kilowatt-hours per person per year to 700 kilowatt-hours. However, scientists point out that the transition to the so-called organic food - grown by traditional methods - will not be beneficial in terms of reducing emissions. In the production of organic products do not use fertilizers, and thus to produce the same amount of food needed more space. Switching to organic matter, on the contrary exacerbates the problem of lack of acreage and exacerbates dependency on imported products.
The phenomenon of the greenhouse effect keeps the Earth's surface temperature, which allows the emergence and development of life. If the greenhouse effect, the average temperature of the earth would be much lower than it is today. However, with increasing concentration of greenhouse gases increases the impermeability of the atmosphere to infrared, which leads to higher temperatures and global warming.
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