We can easily adopt into our lifestyle:<\/p>\n
A Plant-Based\u00a0Diet Healthy Forest and Plant Based Foods Why? In addition, we can demand and support:<\/p>\n Halt to\u00a0Deforestation Development of\u00a0Forestation Why? So, come on, make the change today to a plant-based diet and help our forests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We can easily adopt into our lifestyle: A Plant-Based\u00a0Diet The greenhouse gases associated with the production of meat are comparable and possibly even more significant than the fossil fuel impact. And the demand for water\u00a0associated with\u00a0meat production\u00a0is also huge making a heavy environmental footprint and thus\u00a0impact on the planet. A plant-based diet goes a long…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,20,16,18,17],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-atmosphere","tag-carbon","tag-diet","tag-forests","tag-plants"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcap.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcap.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcap.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcap.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcap.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pcap.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/pcap.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcap.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcap.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcap.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>The greenhouse gases associated with the production of meat are comparable and possibly even more significant than the fossil fuel impact. And the demand for water\u00a0associated with\u00a0meat production\u00a0is also huge making a heavy environmental footprint and thus\u00a0impact on the planet. A plant-based diet goes a long way towards reducing these impacts.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Moving away from a meat diet demands the development of quality produce like nuts and fruits, vegetable and roots, and other horticultural alternatives to meat production. This is healthier and will make a positive change in the reduction of greenhouse gases. Changes in consumer demand, which often come from awakened ethical choices, do lead to\u00a0a reduction in our environmental footprint.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Well, the Worldwatch Institute\u00a0made an\u00a0assessment of human-related greenhouse gases attributable to the life cycle and supply chain of livestock products. The assessment concluded that it is responsible for at least\u00a0half of\u00a0greenhouse gases\u00a0\u2013 and maybe\u00a0more. Some of these emission sources have been assessed before but underestimated, or assigned to another sector, while others have been overlooked. The assessment\u00a0co-authored by two environmental specialists, Robert Goodland and Jeff Anhang,\u00a0is coupled with a mitigation strategy that involves replacing livestock products with better alternatives for human consumption. The assessment can be found at:\u00a0Livestock and Climate Change<\/a><\/em>. In contrast, the widely cited 2006 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Livestock’s Long Shadow<\/a>, <\/i>estimated that only\u00a018 percent of annual worldwide\u00a0greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, camels, pigs, and poultry. But\u00a0Goodland and Anhang find it accounts for more as they take into account\u00a0other factors in the life cycle and supply chain.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>We must maintain our carbon forests. The forests of the earth \u2013 whether in Australia, in the Amazon,\u00a0in Indonesia or elsewhere\u00a0\u2013 are the age-old storehouses of carbon in the form of cellulose and organic matter. Cutting them down can lead to a release of their carbon content into the atmosphere and de-energizing our environment. We need to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Many areas of the world have lost their forests, and deserts are left in their wake. These areas have the potential to become forests again, and the surrounding areas of agricultural land can then also be regained as productive land for cultivation. For a tree, 40% of its weight is carbon. Growing trees is a direct way of locking up the carbon in the atmosphere, giving life to our lands, and also for later\u00a0energizing our atmosphere with oxygen. A green environment makes a significant contribution to a\u00a0lucid\u00a0living space and also to clarity of mind.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Our Earth has been constantly coping with the ways in which human being use natural resources, including clearing forest lands and cutting of trees. We have to give back to the environment. Afforestation is the process of planting trees or sowing seeds in\u00a0barren lands to recreate a forest or create a new forest. This is a high priority. We also need to do\u00a0reforestation which is the process of\u00a0planting native trees into a forest that has decreasing numbers of trees. Both\u00a0help extend the life of the planet and its living organisms.<\/p>\n