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rev8ball Posts: 3,081 Joined: 2001/12/27	2007/08/07, 12:42 PM August 4, 2007 Walking to the shops ?damages planet more than going by car? Dominic Kennedy 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. 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 adds about 0.9 kg 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. ?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...? ...What if, instead of beef, the walker drank a glass of milk? The average person would need to drink 420ml ? three quarters of a pint ? to recover the calories used in the walk. Modern dairy farming emits the equivalent of 1.2kg of CO2 to produce the milk, still more pollution than the car journey. 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 . Organic beef is the most damaging because organic cattle emit more methane... ?...We need to become accustomed to the idea that our food production systems are equally damaging. As the man from Ryanair says, cows generate more emissions than aircraft. Unfortunately, perhaps, he is right. Of course, this doesn?t mean we should always choose to use air or car travel instead of walking. It means we need urgently to work out how to reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of our foodstuffs...? -------------- Michael Humble, even in Victory.
drieman Posts: 190 Joined: 2007/07/16	2007/08/07, 02:03 PM I would bet if they did more research they would find that the problem is the factorys that produce the processed, packaged foods that we could do without. As for the problem with the cows, maybe they can start feeding them "Beano".
Ravenbeauty Posts: 3,755 Joined: 2002/09/24	2007/08/07, 02:06 PM WOW...:surprised: -------------- Bettia You Get What You Train For! - Unknown
baymaster Posts: 112 Joined: 2003/02/11	2007/08/07, 05:38 PM No brainer...eat more cows
BILL06 Posts: 755 Joined: 2006/08/08	2007/08/07, 08:28 PM Moooooo ? -------------- Let me show you Sweet smell of a delicate whisper Behind the vision of gardens Go and read of your life Tiny ripping at the heart Drunk from a rose
thepoohguy Posts: 114 Joined: 2006/09/26	2007/08/07, 09:44 PM If I take a ten by ten room and I'm the only one in it, the temperature is normal. If I stuff 20 people in there, the room gets pretty toasty. Now 100 years ago how many people were on earth giving off body heat? And now we have over 6 Billion! Next thing you know they're going to say save the earth, stop having sex. Which if people did, it probably would save the earth, cause what would be the point in living?
baymaster Posts: 112 Joined: 2003/02/11	2007/08/08, 04:02 AM What would happen if you put 10 cows in a room?....may try it at the weekend.. ============ Quoting from thepoohguy: If I take a ten by ten room and I'm the only one in it, the temperature is normal. If I stuff 20 people in there, the room gets pretty toasty. Now 100 years ago how many people were on earth giving off body heat? And now we have over 6 Billion! Next thing you know they're going to say save the earth, stop having sex. Which if people did, it probably would save the earth, cause what would be the point in living? =============
jbennett Posts: 1,558 Joined: 2001/02/28	2007/08/08, 09:23 AM That's the most ridiculous thing I've read in a long time. I wonder if this Goodall guy is taking the processing and transport of the petroleum to put in the car. From a scientific perspective, I don't believe that article at all. -------------- --JBennett "I've up-ed my intensity.... now up yours!" "Pain is only weakness leaving the body." "Never think of how weak you are; think of how strong you're going to be."
thepoohguy Posts: 114 Joined: 2006/09/26	2007/08/08, 10:37 AM Oh wait, someone just sent me this: The trouble with my "liberal" friends is not that they are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that just isn't so.
Pemdas Posts: 973 Joined: 2004/07/22	2007/08/08, 02:10 PM If we started feeding cows all the stupid people in the world, the problem would solve it self.
baymaster Posts: 112 Joined: 2003/02/11	2007/08/08, 06:35 PM Think we have exhausted the cow theme....moving swiftly on..... ============ Quoting from Pemdas: If we started feeding cows all the stupid people in the world, the problem would solve it self. =============
cholestrol Posts: 21 Joined: 2007/07/19	2007/08/08, 08:00 PM Not one of these bastard researchers again. Yeah walking to the shops causes more damage then going by car- NOT Its because of people who say these kind of things that you have pollution in the first place. At uni I studied sociology, and problems in society. This type of research is a big problem,a sign of social injustice, they always blame the people for the problems in the world, not the governments. You have to change, but only governments can bring about change. examples include. Your depressed its your fault, not the living conditions you live in . smoking damages the environment, smoking is bad. this does not make sense as you have cars on the road causing thousands more times more damage. They tell you to use less packaging, when everything you buy is packaged.