"En route to greener life? You'll need a map; Carbon footprints not easily gauged" by Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff | March 18, 2009
In a warming world, just strolling down a grocery store aisle brings people face to face with dozens of carbon conundrums. Is filling your basket with only locally produced food the best way to shrink your dinner's carbon footprint? (Not always.) Is microwaving dinner better for the climate than baking? (Usually.)
Look at the agenda-pushing s***ters pushing their globalist agenda! I'll bet this turns into a "local food leaves a bigger carbon footprint" story as the agenda-pushers pimp for Monsanto.
Related: The Boston Globe Says Eat S***!
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A growing body of research is putting our everyday lifestyle under the microscope to discern the heat-trapping greenhouse gases that our choices create.
When I see the LIMOING and the JETTING of the ELITE CEASE and the PROTESTERS OUTSIDE SPORTS STADIUMS and NASCAR, then I will ytake them seriously; otherwise, PFFFFFFFFFFFTTTT!!!
Studies of products, from lettuce to laptops, reveal some surprising truths - for example, don't be so quick to ditch your old PC for a new, energy-efficient model.
That won't help the economy.
Slowing global warming, it turns out, isn't always as straightforward as driving a Prius or screwing in energy-efficient lightbulbs.
Have you had enough of that? It's a RETURN to WINTER here in Massachusetts today says the weatherman!
Scientists are developing methods for calculating carbon footprints of everyday items and working with companies to trace the complicated environmental impact of products, accounting for everything from the fertilizer on the farm, to the fuel used to power equipment, to the packaging, to the transport.
Translation: Pull down those pants and bend over, AmeriKa!
See: Obama's Face Fart
Some foresee a day when consumers count carbon in the same way they now count calories.
While the RICH ELITERS PIG OUT!!
"How green is your lunch?" said Edgar Blanco, a scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. "I'm a believer that we should have a notion of a budget of carbon we should use."
Actually, it is brown and it smells!!!
What the scientists are finding often defies intuition.
Translation: the "scientists" are LYING AGAIN!!!!
Take what Blanco calls the "distance paradox," best embodied in bottled water. Tap water is most earth-friendly, of course, but if you're going to drink bottled water, those from Fiji and France sound like particular environmental villains. But the distance something is shipped often matters less than the inputs at the beginning of the process, which are virtually invisible to a consumer.
So BUY GLOBAL, not local, 'kay? What HORSESHIT!! Yeah, those CORPORATE CARBON FOOTPRINTS can't even be seen (or smelt)!!!!
Blanco didn't single out brands or examine the practices that individual companies use to make their products greener. Instead, he looked at the predominant energy source for bottling plants. In France, such plants use electricity generated mostly by nuclear energy, and in the Pacific Islands, geothermal is a common energy source; both are clean from a carbon dioxide standpoint. In the United States, by contrast, bottling plants are powered mostly by fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.
So GO DOWN to Wal-Mart and let your local town die!!! After all, crap from China doesn't hurt the environment, even as we complain about China's emissions!
His conclusions were simple: The mix of power in the United States means that local bottled water has a much bigger carbon footprint than the stuff shipped thousands of miles.
You know, it doesn't help you newspapers to tell FLAT-OUT, OUTRAGEOUS LIES. That's why NO ONE BUT ME is reading or buying you, Globe!
That doesn't mean you should run out and buy imported French water. Nobody suggests that greenhouse gas emissions alone should govern consumer decisions; after all, there are many other environmental considerations - such as the radioactive waste from nuclear plants - not to mention factors such as price and taste. But as carbon consciousness spreads, Blanco says such thinking will drive broader changes among consumers and companies....
Yeah, nobody was saying, BUT!!!!!!
I am SO SICK of the SHIT AGENDA-PUSHING and "journalism" of AmeriKa's newspapers!! They TRULY SUCK NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Research tracking greenhouse gas emissions over the life of a product is often aimed at companies looking for ways to make their products more environmentally friendly. But.... understanding broad-brush ecofriendly rules comes from a study published last year by Christopher Weber, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who studies international trade and the environment and also happens to be a foodie....
An agenda-pushing "foodie?" Pffffffttt!
It spurred him to do a study of the carbon impact of eating an all-local diet.
Let me guess: it is a BIGGER FOOTPRINT than globalist poisoners.
He found that people could commit to eating all-local to shrink their carbon footprint, but they could accomplish the same thing more simply by replacing less than a day's worth of calories from red meat and dairy in their diet with chicken, fish, eggs, or fruits and vegetables each week.
Yeah, whule RICHERS PIG OUT!!!
"Every table was set with a single fresh rose (from the rose gardens outside, I was told) and a full complement of three forks, two knives, and two spoons in silver plate..... The buffet tables could have graced a high-end ocean liner. I watched a gentleman in colorful African garb pile his plate with slices of roast sirloin and potatoes mashed with feta cheese. A post-retirement-age couple from the East Side scarfed up most of the egg rolls, though more came out quickly....
I made for the roast leg of lamb with rosemary sauce after I filled my salad plate with chilled asparagus and slices of a duck and pork terrine.... fresh tomato soup and bowls of pasta primavera.... The dessert buffet table practically groaned under a spread of apple and pumpkin pies, cheesecakes, tarts, half a dozen cheeses, sliced fruits, bowls of berries, and, off to one side, three urns of ice cream"
And that was just for LUNCH!
Also see: Globalist Gluttons Gorge Themselves
Had enough, America?!!!!
Cows, because of everything from the amount of feed they require to the methane gas they release during digestion, have large carbon footprints.
Yeah, now it's the COWS!!! You know, they have been on this planet for centuries and no problem -- until the enviro-cultists showed up!!!! You sure it ain't NASCAR, s***er?
The research isn't limited to the dinner table. In a study of desktop computers, Eric Williams of Arizona State University found that it's better for the atmosphere to use an older machine for a few more years than to buy a slick, more energy-efficient model, because of the large amount of energy used in manufacturing.
Good. I won't be helping the economy by buying a new computer anytime soon.
"So much of this is new in the public consciousness," Nathan Pelletier, a graduate student studying ecological economics at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said at a recent conference, where he also suggested that people could trim their carbon footprints if they stopped overeating.
Oh, PUH-LEEZE!! Tell it to the U.N and the RICHERS, not my one-meal-a-day growler of a stomach!!!
You see that this is ALL ABOUT MORE FOR THE AGENDA-PUSHING CROWD while YOU do with MUCH LSS, right, Americans? Or is your head to far buried in that breakfast bowl of shit?
