Make Up Your So Called Minds
Man, every day these global warming goons come up with another contradiction. This one is hilarious. It says, don’t exercise. Drive your cars.
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 [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.
“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.”
Well, I guess we should believe them in order to save the planet. After all, exercise is bad for you.
Shoot! There’s nothing in that article about sex! [snicker]
Posted by Macker on 08/05 at 03:50 PMSome of these wackos think the climate would benefit if people were eliminated. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a group so hell bent on sending us back to live in trees.
Posted by joy on 08/06 at 04:09 AM
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