Christmas Dinner Causes Global Warming
By Noel Sheppard | December 25, 2008 | 13:31
First it's Christmas lights, now it's Christmas dinner...causing global warming.
Yep. People who cook more than their guests will eat and throw the food away are destroying the planet.
I'm not kidding.
ABCNews.com in Australia reported the following absurdity on Christmas Eve:
Wasted food at Christmas time is now being highlighted as an environmental problem.
Jon Dee, the chairman of Do Something, says gases from leftover food rotting in landfill are 20 times more potent than the carbon pollution from car exhausts.
Mr Dee says there are simple ways to avoid over-catering at Christmas and damaging the environment.
"Australians waste more than 3 million tonnes of food every year and of course a lot of that food is wasted at Christmas," he said.
Okay, I'll bite: if "gases from leftover food rotting in landfill are 20 times more potent than the carbon pollution from car exhausts," why are we worried about carbon pollution from car exhausts? Or from coal-fired power plants?
Now, add in all the methane being released from cows, bogs, and wetlands across the planet, and the fact that methane is a signficantly more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and hasn't this article pointed out the extraordinary absurdity in the entire anthropogenic global warming myth?
- Noel Sheppard's blog
- Login to post comments
Comments
I am not defending all the
Submitted by paul11 on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:57am.
I am not defending all the food waste which occurs around Christmas, but there are other more important reasons why we should worry about our planet. Plastic waste is much more damaging from my point of view, it lasts for hundreds years after it gets dumped, while the food waste is being processed by the bacteria and transformed into rich soil. We should first try to reduce the plastic waste and then see what we could do about the food waste. I always sort my trash before the Baltimore trash removal arrival so it could be recycled, but I know many who simply don't care about doing it...
Great article. I have
Submitted by miley11 on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 12:37am.
Great article. I have proposed decentralized decision-making in my platform from the beginning. It seems just now, those that wish to be in power are waking up to the fact that people want to have a say in the future of the shape of their communities. Further, they should be expressing my something similar to my second platform point, participatory budget. This is gaining momentum in America,smoke damage Cleveland
already in other parts of Canada and around the world and again, brings the community into the process of spending money - a much needed method to renew trust and transparency.
It looks like the city faces
Submitted by miley11 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 9:26am.
It looks like the city faces some serious administrative issues last year. I never thought that a garbage strike can be possible, not picking up the garbage for days can significantly increase the risk of diseases. Thank God I never have to worry about that with Water damage Northfield IL companies, they don't all belong to the state.