The solution to Global Warming!
By dickkell
@dickkell (403)
United States
March 8, 2007 11:53pm CST
According to the UN report on global warming, raising livestock for food contributes more greenhouse gases than ALL the automobiles in the world COMBINED!!! The solution - VEGANISM. Eliminating livestock production would eliminate the single largest source of greenhouse gasses, and the pollution would clear up in only 8 years! So greenies, put down that burger, stop drinking milk, eating meat, cheese, eggs, etc. and save the world!
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@rhinoboy (2129)
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9 Mar 07
Many of the reports on Global warming are flawed in the extreme.
Despite the human condition of believing that we are the biggest and most important thing on the planet, the figures for carbon emissions (when viewed objectively) actually show that the human contribution to co2 in the atmosphere is absolutely dwarfed by that of natural effects.
I can't quote exactly from memory (I'm sure everyone can find figures themselves) but I seen an objective TV documentary just last night that quoted something like:
Volcanoes produce about 1500x more co2 than global industry
Natural decomposition and animals produce around 3000x more co2 than global industry.
The oceans emit more than 150,000x more co2 than industry.
Climate change is a process that has been going back and forth for millions of years. How naive is it to assume that human activity in the last 50 or 100 years is having such a devastating effect?
@jeweledbluerose (3061)
• United States
9 Mar 07
Haha! Thanks for the laugh. I care about the Earth just as much as anyone else does, but I will not turn into a vegetarian. I was a born meat-eater and I'll continue to be such until the day I die. That same livestock also provides the fertilizer that many farmers and gardeners use, so I doubt it will be anytime soon that we will stop producing livestock anytime soon.
