Imbalance Ecosystem

Eating Meat = Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) Rising = Imbalance of Ecosystem?

It does not matter what kind of non-meat eater you are, what matters most is the awareness of the after effect and action taken.

I was once shared a view that the food chain was pretty healthy in the olden days. Animal eats animal, animal eats plant, plant re-grows and so on. In the modern days however, human breeds animal as source of food, to be consumed. We know the equation, if there is an input, there must be an output. In this case, there are so many new resources, so much input, but where does the output go?

Some are recycled, some are burnt or simply dumped into the trash site or even into the sea. This plays an important part in the carbon dioxide (CO2) rising.

In some worse scenarios, there is not even any breeding process. We over-consume what the mother-earth gives without considering the consequences. For instance, with the growing demands of fish will result in more fish catching. Demands could mean anything, whether it is consuming as in eating, ordered for other purposes, etc, that also increase the sale and supply. Subsequently more and more fish will be caught to meet the demands. 

Catching fish requires effort, time, transportation, tools, etc, which in turn creates the needs of energy. What is the source energy? Fuel for transportation, whatever resources used to maintain the fish caught, to keep it fresh, etc. All of these can be summed up to energy usage. Energy usage definition itself has already a minimum contribution to the Carbon Dioxide (CO2). Not to mention the burning of gasoline, let alone the gas emission during the process. As the results of the catching, there will be no balance to the ecosystem and subsequent consequences will follow.

Think about the overgrowing demands of timber. With more trees being cut down, where will the forest lives go? Without shelter it will be extreme hard to maintain lives, and also more vulnerable to the attack of other predators. Subsequently with the growing of upper chain carnivore, and less on the lower chain, the entire ecosystem will soon die out.

I find this quote interesting, written by the environmentalist Bill McKibben in his article Where We Go, Changing Climate (National Geographic), “remember, the last time a huge asteroid plunked into the Earth, extinguishing huge numbers of species? This time we’re the asteroid”. There is so much true in this.

Our excuses have always sounded whiny, “If I have to cut down the meat intake myself, it will not do any difference while there are so many people out there who do not care.” Remember the art of influence. We eat meat because we are brought up to eat meat. We are made to believe we need meat, the best source of nutrition and energy. With only vegetable, we will not survive for long. These are all myth. You should have heard lots of encouragement and advices to eat less meat for some similar reasons, but I will not just stop there.