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August 6, 2007
Walking Causes More Global Warming Than Driving
Highlighting the absurdity of attempting to prevent the fictional phenomenon of anthropogenic global warming, it has been found that walking produces more "greenhouse gas" emissions than driving a car. From the Times Online:
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."
Goodall is a Green Party parliamentary candidate and completely on the level.
Taxes on walking, eating, and getting up off the couch can only go so far. Even breathing releases CO2.
Clearly there is only one way to prevent global warming. We must cease to exist. Of course, the liberal elite will have to go last, so that it can supervise our extinction.
On a tip from Bill.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 6, 2007 10:18 AM
Comments
I'm speechless.
Posted by: Steve at August 6, 2007 3:30 PM
Yes, you're on the money. Communism, Socialism, Moonbat Environmentalism all have one goal - control and if necessary stop human progress. From the little I know about Marx and from statements by his disciples, they're political program is, "Stop the world. I can't handle change." So they dream up amazing marketing campaigns that embolden them to kill those who refuse to sit still. The core war is: producers vs. non-producers.
Posted by: d at August 6, 2007 5:19 PM
