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Christmas Dinner Causes Global Warming

By Noel Sheppard | December 25, 2008 | 12:31

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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?

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I am not defending all the

Submitted by paul11 on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 4:57am.

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...

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