Report: People will have to be rationed to four modest portions of meat and one litre of milk a week if the world is to avoid runaway climate change.
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/ 7 September 2008
People should have one meat-free day a week to help tackle climate change, says the world’s leading authority on global warming.
The United Nations is to hold its first debate on road safety amid warnings that the problem is a ”public health crisis” on the scale of Aids, malaria and tuberculosis. Next week’s meeting will follow research by the World Health Organisation forecasting that between 2000 and 2015, road accidents will cause 20-million deaths.
The Antarctic, one of the planet’s last unspoilt ecosystems, is under threat from mankind’s insatiable appetite for harvesting the seas. The population of krill, a tiny crustacean, is in danger from the growing demand for health supplements and food for fish farms.