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Jun 23
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My continuing objective is to develop edgy ideas that are timely, yet futuristic - created with compassion and a caring consciousness for the earth's fragile resources.
Did you know?
The number one most environmentally damaging effect is the automobile. The number two most environmentally damaging effect is industrial meat production...which pollutes our air, water and land while eating up valuable resources.
"A reduction in meat consumption is the most potent single act you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our precious natural resources." - John Robbins, author of The Food Revolution
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Phillip J Greene
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Number one environmental damage is from.... Sorry Pablo, but it is not from the automobile. It is from using coal for the production of electricity. CO2 from burning coal is far and away the worst cause of CO2 in the atmosphere. China produces the most pollution from coal power plants, but we are right behind them. The US, however, produces ten times the CO2 per capita. If China produced as much per capita the world would be unlivable. The good news is China knows and acknowledges their problem and are taking steps to curtail the production of CO2. Trucking uses about 80% of the fuel we use for transportation. I don't know the figures on meat production, but I think your vegan prejudice is showing. |
PABlo Bley
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I don't know all the answers... Dear Phil: OK I take your point literally, and the source for my comments is lost somewhere in the past... bearing witness to the length of time that I've felt the way I do about such things (most of my life, in fact.) But I'm not here to defend the accuracy of all that. While acknowledging your in-depth knowledge of these subjects, I still feel that our "addictions" to oil consumption and beef consumption --both of which are commercially produced with little or no regard to the enormous cost of those processes to the life sustaining qualities of our environment on this Island Earth, i.e. clean water & clean air-- is something that is immediately discernible. So, there is always something that we CAN do, which is to cut back on those choices which do indeed contribute to the negative results. Each of us, has that choice to make. To cut back, instead of acting as if it doesn't really matter, when it surely does. I'm not saying "cold turkey" either. I believe it has to be done with pragmatic considerations... or it's simply not sustainable in the truest sense of the word. I regard the details as important, and accuracy is needful. So I will stand corrected about what those details are. Yet, I can't believe that many people are still willing to argue against the necessities of re-thinking... reducing... re-using... re-cycling... Thanks for your comment. Thanks for being the kind of person who not only talks the talk, but also walks the walk. My hat is doffed to you, Sir! Because I know that you DO care. Peace! Out. PABlo |
Jan Strasser
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We All Learn As We Grow Older Each day I try to look more and more into my life. Eating a more healthy diet is of course part of that. While I don't know any of the data you do, I know that I must eat better because my body tolerates mistakes less than it seemed to when I was younger. I even know the "seemed to" part speaks volumes also as to what was going on. In the past I would have discounted this philosophy, but time and research has shown much. Our household, while not vegetarian it is more so than I could ever have imagined, now. |
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