Be Veggie, Go Green PLANETARY EMERGENCY 星球告急

PLANETARY EMERGENCY
星球告急

"We are so closed to the red line, we may wake up tomorrow and discover there's nothing to save."
– Maneka Gandhi, former Indian Environment Minister
我們是如此接近紅色警戒線
我們明天醒來時，可能發現
為時已晚
印度前環境署長瑪妮卡．甘地

If the future of the world depend on me,
如果世界的未來，操之在我

what would I do?
我將做什麼？

Did You Know?
您知道嗎？

Greenhouse gases
Who produces most?
溫室效應氣體
何者產生較多？

Livestock produces 40% more Greenhouse gas emissions
than global transportation.
畜牧業比全球交通運輸
所產生的溫室效應氣體
還多40%

Amazon forest releases 20 Billion tonnes of fresh water into the atmosphere everyday.
每天亞馬遜森林釋出
200億公噸新鮮的水到空氣中

24 hours of deforestation releases as much CO2 as 8 million people flying from London to New York.
砍伐森林24小時
所釋出的二氧化碳等於
800萬人從倫敦飛到紐約

Every second, rainforest the size of a football field is destroyed to produce 257 hamburgers.
每秒鐘，為生產257個漢堡
有一個如橄欖球場大小的雨林
被摧毀

More than 90% of Amazon forest cleared since 1970 is used for livestock pasture.
從1970年起
為放牧畜養
清砍超過90%的亞馬遜森林

18 months to halt deforestation to preserve life on this planet.
(May, 2008)
His Royal Highness Prince Charles
2008年5月
英國查爾斯王子說
停止砍伐森林
以保地球上的生命
僅剩18個月了

16 pounds of Grain needed to produce 1 pound of Beef.
生產1磅的牛肉
需要16磅的穀物

Factory farm Cows never die of hunger.
工廠化農場的牛
從不因饑餓而死

YET
然而

A child dies of hunger every 2.3 seconds.
每2.3秒就有一個孩童死於饑餓

1.2 Billion people suffer from Hunger.
十億兩千萬的人飽受饑餓之苦

Another 1.2 Billion are obese.
另外十億兩千萬人卻過度肥胖

Every year 760 Million tonnes of Grain fed to Livestock.
每年有760億噸的穀物
用來餵養牲口

it Could solve global food shortage 14 times.
是用來解決全球糧食短缺的
14倍糧食

Grain fed to animals for livestock loses 90% of the energy from the original grain.
用來餵養牲口的糧食
比起穀物原物料所需能源
多損失了90%的能源

1 hectare of land produces Potatoes for 22 people.
一公頃土地生產的馬鈴薯
可給22個人吃

1 hectare of land produces Rice for 19 people.
一公頃土地生產的稻米
可給19個人吃

1 hectare of land produces Lamb for 2 people.
一公頃土地生產的小羊肉
只能給2個人吃

1 hectare of land produces Beef for 1 person.
一公頃土地生產的牛肉
只能給1個人吃

1.1 Billion people live without safe clean drinking water, that's 1 in 6 of us.
十億一千萬人
我們每六個人當中就有一個
沒有安全乾淨的飲用水

19,737 Liters of water are needed to produce 1 pound of Beef.
生產1磅的牛肉需要耗用
19,737加崙的水

This is enough water to take a 7-minute shower every day for an entire year.
這足夠讓你一整年
每天沖個7分鐘的澡

Livestock in U.S. produces 86,000 pounds of excrement per second.
光是美國境內所有的牲口
每秒就製造八萬六千磅的排泄物

That's 130 times more than the entire human population.
那是全人類排泄量的130倍

While you are watching this video, 226 football fields of rainforest cleared.
當您在看這部影片時
有226個橄欖球場大小的雨林
被清砍殆盡

2090 cows,
9,150 pigs,
334,120 chickens are killed.
2090隻牛
9150 隻豬
33萬4千120隻雞被宰殺

100 children died of hunger.
還有100個孩童死於饑餓

BUT,
但是

YOU HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THIS NOW.
您有力量，現在就終止這一切

It's on your plate.
就在您的餐盤上

Be Veggie, Go Green.
請開始吃素，加入環保


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http://www.vegannewlife.org/earthsos/earth14.php