OSLO: United States special climate envoy John Kerry told AFP that the world's population will not be tenable in 2050, when it is projected to hit nearly 10 billion, but refrained from asking Americans to give up steaks. Since November, the global population has
, with devastating droughts and flooding, although its citizens have had barely any impact on global warming compared to Western nations.Avoiding air travel, consuming less meat and improving insulation of homes are all changes that can help protect the environment.
That guidance would see the biggest meat eaters reduce their intake to under 500g of red meat per week."I think that those choices are up to people on their own, what they want to do, how they want to do it," he said. The former secretary of state under Barack Obama, who lost the 2004 presidential election to George W Bush, rejected the notion of prescribed, top-down changes to everyday life as a solution to the world's challenges.
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