The Arctic used to be a big thick chunk of old, hard, ice that covered the top of the world year round. The sun circles day and night above the arctic for most of summer and disappears for winter (a bad time to holiday there). The winter ice has always been enough to keep a complete sea coverage despite the summer heat.

But each year the sea ice is thinner and younger. It’s now a wavering thin layer of seasonal ice that is retreating more and more to the pole each summer.

The bad news for Earthlings like me is the heat that the Arctic ice used to reflect is now being absorbed into of the ocean (24-7, all summer) causing even more melting. Less ice, warmer water, more sun, less ice, warmer water… It’s a vicious circle up there that’s completely freaking out anyone who’s paying attention.

Once the ice is gone we can expect climate change to enter a new nastier phase (as if it wasn’t already bad enough with millions of climate refugees already on the move).

Gigatons (an amount so large it cannot be spellchecked) of methane are ready to be released into the atmosphere from the permafrost and ocean bed as these warming trends feed back on themselves. There’s supposed to be as much as there is in the atmosphere right now. So the arctic has it’s own feedback loops and then there’s a feedback loop between the artic and permafrost. We’re all fried.

Or are we? Why would I be sacaring you like this if there weren’t a damdiddily thing you could do about it?

As it turns out I’m not that sick and there is (wow) something you can do and you can even start right now at no cost at all (enough with the italics). In fact the same solution will help alleviate food shortages and chronic illnesses like heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Read on. Read more. Okay, so you didn’t click the links.

Be Veg!

Veg is short for vegan: a person who eats plant-based food only.