My letter in today's Jerusalem Post/ALL the best/Richard
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Richard Schwartz
Nov 3, 2021, 12:16:16 PM11/3/21
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Averting catastrophe
Kol hakavod for your eloquent editorial, “Changing climate” (November 1), which properly argues that reducing climate threats is “something that is essential for our children and grandchildren.”
You discuss the importance of reaching Israel’s “new, highly ambitious zero-emissions goal by 2050” and several things necessary to accomplish it, including prioritizing renewable energy and improving public transportation. However, how can this goal possibly be reached while cows and other farmed animals continue to emit methane, a greenhouse gas about 100 times as potent as CO2 during the 10-20 years it is in the atmosphere?
It is time to recognize that there is absolutely no way to avert climate catastrophe without a societal shift to plant-based diets because that is the only approach that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and has the potential to reduce current very dangerous atmospheric CO2 levels to safe levels by planting billions of carbon-absorbing trees on the vast areas of land worldwide currently used for grazing and growing feed crops for animals.
Since there are now so many delicious plant-based substitutes for meat and other animal products, it is much easier to switch diets today, and this is essential to efforts to leave a decent, habitable world for future generations.
RICHARD H. SCHWARTZ
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Professor Emeritus, College of Staten Island
Author of Vegan Revolution: Saving Our World, Revitalising Judaism; Judaism and Vegetarianism; Judaism and Global Survival; Mathematics and Global Survival; and Who Stole My Religion? Revitalizing Judaism and Applying Jewish Values to Help Heal Our Imperiled Planet; and over 250 articles at JewishVeg.org/schwartz
President Emeritus, Jewish Vegetarians of North America (www.JewishVeg.org); President, Society Of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians (SERV):
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Author of Vegan Revolution: Saving Our World, Revitalising Judaism; Judaism and Vegetarianism; Judaism and Global Survival; Mathematics and Global Survival; and Who Stole My Religion? Revitalizing Judaism and Applying Jewish Values to Help Heal Our Imperiled Planet; and over 250 articles at JewishVeg.org/schwartz
President Emeritus, Jewish Vegetarians of North America (www.JewishVeg.org); President, Society Of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians (SERV):
Associate producer of A SACRED DUTY (www.aSacredDuty.com);
"Like" JVNA on Facebook at www.facebook.com/JewishVeg
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