WALKING CONTRIBUTES MORE TO GLOBAL WARMING THAN DRIVING

[Harry Beanbag]

Walking does more than driving to cause global warming, a leading environmentalist has calculated.

Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. 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.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2195538.ece


It just doesn't get any better than this. :D :pop:

[OUHOMER]

i will help to do my part :D

[Widescreen]

I had no idea Robert Allen was an environmentalist.

[OUHOMER]

I had no idea Robert Allen was an environmentalist.
he even provides shade

[Scott D]

if more people drank newcastle instead of crap like natty and bud there'd be less carbon emissions ;)

[olevetonahill]

if more people drank newcastle instead of crap like natty and bud there'd be less carbon emissions ;)
:mad: :mad: ;)

[IronSooner]

if more people drank newcastle instead of crap like natty and bud there'd be less carbon emissions ;)

Your idea intrigues me. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

[Harry Beanbag]

if more people drank newcastle instead of crap like natty and bud there'd be less carbon emissions ;)


Don't you mean methane emissions?:texan:

[yermom]

methane is mostly Carbon by weight ;)

[crawfish]

All you dang joggers are killing us. :mad:

[OUDoc]

This study wasn't sponsored by Exxon, was it?

[Scott D]

This study wasn't sponsored by Exxon, was it?

nah BP. ;)

[Harry Beanbag]

methane is mostly Carbon by weight ;)


True.

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[mdklatt]

The sums were done by Chris Goodall, campaigning author of How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, based on the greenhouse gases created by intensive beef production. “Driving a typical UK car for 3 miles [4.8km] adds about 0.9 kg [2lb] of CO2 to the atmosphere,” he said, a calculation based on the Government’s official fuel emission figures. “If you walked instead, it would use about 180 calories. You’d need about 100g of beef to replace those calories, resulting in 3.6kg of emissions, or four times as much as driving."

Apparently, people in Britain get 100% of their calories from beef. Not very smart given their history of Mad Cow Disease.

[Tulsa_Fireman]

Apparently, people in Britain get 100% of their calories from beef. Not very smart given their history of Mad Cow Disease.

Yeah!?

SO!?