<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div><span class="ILfuVd MqYJ0" style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Roboto, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(60, 64, 67); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="e24Kjd" style="max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px;">Livestock farming has a vast <b style="max-height: 999999px;">environmental</b> footprint. It contributes to land and water degradation, biodiversity loss, acid rain, coral reef degeneration and deforestation. Nowhere is this impact more apparent than climate change – livestock farming contributes 18% of human produced greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.</span></span></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net> </div><div>Date: 9/25/19 23:07 (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss@anti-war.net> </div><div>Cc: "Brussel, Morton K" <brussel@illinois.edu> </div><div>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Hedges, again </div><div><br></div></div>
What do you disagree with?
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<div class=""><a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/saving-the-planet-means-overthrowing-the-ruling-elites/" class="">https://www.truthdig.com/articles/saving-the-planet-means-overthrowing-the-ruling-elites/</a></div>
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<div class="">…"We have to let go of our relentless positivism, our absurd mania for hope, our naive belief that with grit and determination we can solve all problems. We have to face the bleakness before us. We live in a world already heavily damaged by global
warming, which will inevitably get worse. Refusal to participate in the further destruction of the planet means a rupture with traditional politics. It means noncooperation with authority. It means defying in every nonviolent way possible consumer capitalism,
militarism and imperialism. It means adjusting our lifestyle, including <a href="https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/global-warming/" class="">
becoming vegans,</a> to thwart the forces bent upon our annihilation. And it means waves of sustained civil disobedience until the machine is broken.”</div>
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<div class="">I’m not sure about the vegans requirement…</div>
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