Some other sources of Global Warming
There is "someone else somewhere"............ ....
Wittydoc, a leading environmentalist, has calculated that WALKING contributes
more towards Global warming than DRIVING. "Driving my Hyundai Accent car for 5
KM adds about 1 kg of CO2 to the atmosphere," he said, a calculation based on
the Government's official fuel emission figures. "If I had walked instead, I
would've used about 180 calories. Then, I would need about 100g of meat or 420
ml of Milk to replace those calories, both of which result in 3.6kg of
emissions, or four times as much as driving."
Thus, the climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became
couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV
rather than leaving it on standby.
The troubling fact is that taking a lot of exercise and then eating a bit more
food is not good for the global atmosphere. Eating less and driving to save
energy would be better.
Cattle farming is notorious for its perceived damage to the environment, based
on what scientists politely call "methane production" from cows. The gas,
released during the digestive process, is 21 times more harmful than CO2. So
much so, that Michael O'Leary, boss of the budget airline Ryanair, commented
that cows generate more emissions than aircraft and thus, global warming could
be solved by massacring the world's cattle.
Shattering some more great green myths
* Traditional nappies are as bad as disposables, a study by the Environment
Agency found. While throwaway nappies make up 0.1 per cent of landfill waste,
the cloth variety are a waste of energy, clean water and detergent.
* Paper bags are worse for the environment than plastic because of the extra
energy needed to manufacture and transport them.
* Trees, regarded as shields against global warming because they absorb
carbon, were found by German scientists to be major producers of methane, a
much more harmful greenhouse gas.
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