Electronic Artist Moby Takes on Climate Change ... and Al Gore

Moby, the chrome-domed musician known for songs like "We Are All Made of Stars," is taking on climate change and Al Gore.

What? Al Gore has become a crusader in the quest to curb the effects of human-induced climate change, most notably with "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary that gave him an Oscar and a Nobel prize.

But Moby thinks Al didn't go far enough with the documentary, by leaving out the positive effects of eliminating meat from our diets. Moby, a vegan, tells spinner.com that he asked Al Gore why the former vice president didn't mention the benefits to the planet of a meat-free diet.

"He answered honestly, basically saying that getting people to drive a hybrid car isn't that difficult," Moby said. "Getting people to give up animal products is almost impossible. I appreciated his honesty."

Moby says you can't talk about climate change without talking about the role played by animal production. A leader with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that cutting out meat one day a week is a good way to make a change.

News of Moby's conversation with Al Gore comes shortly after he played a free concert on Aug. 20 in Stockholm, Sweden, as part of Play to Stop, a series of concerts organized by the European Commission and MTV Networks International.

The Play to Stop concert was the first of three leading up to United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, in December, when international leaders will meet to try and negotiate a new greenhouse gas reduction agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

Moby calls climate change "the single most important issue facing mankind," according to Yahoo! News.

Play to Stop aims to mobilize young people in the battle, and put pressure on policymakers to reach an agreement.