Should people give up eating meat to save the planet?

Last week, I read this article in The Telegraph where Lord Stern talks about taking up vegetarianism to reduce our carbon footprint. He adds that eating meat could become as socially unacceptable as drunk driving. But is being vegetarian really the solution to climate change?

Green Politics

Green Politics by Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain and Anju Sharma is perhaps one of those few books which talks about the stance of developing countries when it comes to global environmental negotiations. The developing countries have always come across as skeptics when it comes to global environmental negotiations and their reasons can be fairly justified. [...]

Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink..

Ahmer Ali, 28, returned with six family members to find his house virtually destroyed and his rice crop gone. This plight is not shared by Ahmer and his family alone; thousands of southern Indians were affected by the floods in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka states by torrential rains after severe drought. This natural disaster killed [...]