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How to end Global Warming...

Posted by dixiefilms • 6/10/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: animal right, global warming, greenhouse gas, meat, methane, planet, vegan, vegetarian

I'll tell you what I have found is the best way to end global warming....

Most of you might now like what you hear...but...here it is....

If the world stopped eating meat, we could save the planet. I may be a vegan, and partial to this, but here's some facts:

Methane is the number one greenhouse gas. And the biggest source of methane is animal agriculture.

If we stopped eating meat, we could save our lives and the planet.

What do you think is the best way to save the planet?

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6/10/08

richrf

Use a little less, and do a little less of everything we feel we have to do.

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1. 6/10/08
  
  dixiefilms
  
  That would be great if everyone would...
  
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2. 6/10/08
  
  richrf
  
  If they just watched you, they would have time for anything else.
6/10/08

jackpayne

Stop talking about it.

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6/10/08

kdawg68

"the x-rated grandma" ?

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1. 6/13/08
  
  dixiefilms
  
  comment removed by the community.
6/12/08

pobeptr

Beef is a vegetable proxie. Cows eat grass and I eat cow's.

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6/12/08

crkian

If you stopped eating meat wouldnt that mean there are more animals in the world.

Anyway Ive just loaded the cooker with some pork

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1. 6/13/08
  
  dixiefilms
  
  The beef industry breeds cattle for slaughter....
  
  What's wrong with more animals? I think life is more important than death...
  
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6/12/08

JacobDiv

It might just stop by itself. Ever check out the 400,000 year ice core temperature chart? Looks like the world is overdue for a massive temperature drop. I never heard the explanation for this cycle, but check it out on this chart... then compare it to the 'hockey stick' chart that is the root of global warming fears.

400,000 year chart

full size at:
danallen.com/blurb.php?dogNow=450

Hockey stick chart, trigger of global warming fears (1,000 years)

full size at:
danallen.com/blurb.php?dogNow=378

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6/12/08

psychosolodiver

The damage is already done; we're screwed.

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1. 6/13/08
  
  dixiefilms
  
  I think you're right....just look at Iowa right now....this is a sign of the times....
  
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6/12/08

barryfromtexas

Actually water vapor is the number one greenhouse gas, not methane.

On a lighter note - leave the refrigerator door open

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6/12/08

JacobDiv

I am pretty sure that as a group, we at Blog Catalog are excellent climate scientists.

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1. 6/12/08
  
  clioandme
  
  As long as you take excellent to mean the opposite of what the dictionary says, and maybe redefine the term scientist too. That's why I don't bother with this subject on BC anymore. It exercises a powerful attraction on twits, who flock to it like flies to horse manure.
2. 6/12/08
  
  JacobDiv
  
  As long as you take excellent to mean the opposite of what the dictionary says, and maybe redefine the term scientist too.
  
  haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha haha hahaha
  
  good one man... I like how you said that.
6/12/08

focusorganic

Cows would still make methane if humans didn't eat them. Unless you plan on killing off all the cows.

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6/12/08

aningeniousname

We could move the earth further away from the sun, if everyone on the planet was flown to Australia we could all lay on the floor and push.

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1. 6/12/08
  
  focusorganic
  
  Or build a bunch of robots to fart all at one time, like on Futurama.
2. 6/12/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  That's too far fetched.
3. 6/12/08
  
  clioandme
  
  Not if we power the robots with aardvarks.
6/12/08

thesparrow

The whole of universe operates on a system and law of balance - balance in the best, shortest and fastest route. We - as a physical entity are a very insignificant part of it.

Even our planet follows the same rules - you play too much around with the system - the system eliminates you - and returns to balance - and yes - the evolution of a healthy natural diet is much needed - free of commerce and commercials

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6/12/08

kaguvkov

Watch the movie "The inconvenient truth".

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1. 6/13/08
  
  dixiefilms
  
  A great movie....
  
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6/12/08

timethief

@dixiefilms
Yes, if more of us became vegetarians this would lower the impact of livestock production on global warming. Obviously, livestock producers are in business to make a profit so a decrease in demand would mean a reduction in supply. Currently livestock production contributes about 18% to earth's carbon emissions. However, it's a mistake to think that there is a single silver bullet solution to this problem that affects us all.

Livestock's Long Shadow
www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.htm
Summary:
This report aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation. The assessment is based on the most recent and complete data available, taking into account direct impacts, along with the impacts of feed crop agriculture required for livestock production.
The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.
Livestock’s contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale and its potential contribution to their solution is equally large. The impact is so significant that it needs to be addressed with urgency. Major reductions in impact could be achieved at reasonable cost.

Climate Change Deniers and Deceivers
When it comes to shattering the myths perpetrated by ill-educated and deliberately deceptive climate change deniers I recommend this site www.desmogblog.com/

I'm sure you will wince when you discover the quotes that are cited there. They demonstrate how off the mark some American politicians are when it comes to this subject.

The good news is that solutions to global warming exist, check out Ross Gelbspan’s Green Sheet and his vision for a pathway to climate peace.
www.desmogblog.com/one-pathway-to-climate-peace-0

@misterDog
You appear to be posting multiple threads on political subjects to the BC forum lately but, it also appears you could use some help locating facts that can be relied upon. I can provide some starters for you.
Have you seen these videos? wonderingmind42.com/
Here is a partial list of organizations that accept anthropogenic global warming as real and scientifically well-supported:
* NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS): www.giss.nasa.gov/edu/gwdebate/

* National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html
* Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/index.htm
* National Academy of Sciences (NAS): books.nap.edu/collections/global_warming/index.html
* State of the Canadian Cryosphere (SOCC) - www.socc.ca/permafrost/permafrost_future_e.cfm
* Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): epa.gov/climatechange/index.html
* The Royal Society of the UK (RS) - www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3135
* American Geophysical Union (AGU): www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/climate_change_position.html
* American Meteorological Society (AMS): www.ametsoc.org/policy/climatechangeresearch_2003.html
* American Institute of Physics (AIP): www.aip.org/gov/policy12.html
* National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR): eo.ucar.edu/basics/cc_1.html
* American Meteorological Society (AMS): www.ametsoc.org/policy/jointacademies.html
* Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS): www.cmos.ca/climatechangepole.html

Every major scientific institution dealing with climate, ocean, and/or atmosphere agrees that the climate is warming rapidly and the primary cause is human CO2 emissions. In addition to that list, see also this joint statement (PDF) that specifically and unequivocally endorses the work and conclusions of the IPCC Third Assessment report. The statement was issued by:

* Academia Brasiliera de Ciencias (Brazil)
* Royal Society of Canada
* Chinese Academy of Sciences
* Academie des Sciences (France)
* Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany)
* Indian National Science Academy
* Accademia dei Lincei (Italy)
* Science Council of Japan
* Russian Academy of Sciences
* Royal Society (United Kingdom)
* National Academy of Sciences (United States of America)

You can also read this statement [PDF], which includes all the above signatories plus the following:

* Australian Academy of Sciences
* Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts
* Caribbean Academy of Sciences
* Indonesian Academy of Sciences
* Royal Irish Academy
* Academy of Sciences Malaysia
* Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand
* Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

But if scientists are too liberal and politicians too unreliable, perhaps you find the opinion of key industry representatives more convincing:

* BP, the largest oil company in the UK and one of the largest in the world, has this opinion:

There is an increasing consensus that climate change is linked to the consumption of carbon based fuels and that action is required now to avoid further increases in carbon emissions as the global demand for energy increases.

* Shell Oil (yes, as in oil, the fossil fuel) says:

Shell shares the widespread concern that the emission of greenhouse gases from human activities is leading to changes in the global climate.

* Eighteen CEOs of Canada’s largest corporations had this to say in an open letter to the Prime Minister of Canada:

Our organizations accept that a strong response is required to the strengthening evidence in the scientific assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). We accept the IPCC consensus that climate change raises the risk of severe consequences for human health and security and the environment. We note that Canada is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

Have the environazis seized the reigns of industrial power, in addition to infiltrating the U.N., the science academies of every developed nation, and the top research institutes of North America? That just doesn’t seem very likely.

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1. 6/13/08
  
  dixiefilms
  
  Nice to see some input....
  
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2. 6/13/08
  
  clioandme
  
  You ever read Frances Moore Lappe, Diet for a Small Planet?
6/13/08

voodooKobra

That's easy. Shoot Al Gore in the head.

By doing that, you will end "me having to hear about Global Warming," and that's good enough.

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1. 6/21/08
  
  kat822
  
  Oh thank you for that whooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooo
6/13/08

dixiefilms

Al Gore is doing a lot for the world. He could do a lot more by not eating dead animals, and losing 100 pounds...

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1. 6/13/08
  
  voodooKobra
  
  "X RATED GRANDMA"
  
  I will pay you to keep your clothes on. :|
2. 6/13/08
  
  DrowseyMonkey
  
  LOL voodoo. Nice, gentle avatar by the way. Very non-controversial. Unless you're a dog, I guess.
3. 6/21/08
  
  kat822
  
  He's doing a lot to capitolize off of the subject...
6/13/08

Anniepooh

Eat less beans.

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1. 6/13/08
  
  dharmagypsy7
  
  Ooooh I love beans more than cows... Must I?
6/13/08

zawadi

Help end Global warming by using beano also Anniepooh.
Beano www.beanogas.com/

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1. 6/13/08
  
  Anniepooh
  
  Amen, girl.
6/13/08

satijournal

We can only do so much. Most people have to drive to get where they need to go and most greenhouse gases come from the combustion of fossil fuels.

Finally, now that gas is at $4.00 a gallon, there is some interest in electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. These vehicles can get their energy from the electric grid. Power plants can use any number of clean technologies to generate electricity.

There are a few problems with electric vehicles, though -- cost and battery discharge. Most electric vehicles can only go about 10 or 20 miles on a charge. If the government put the money it uses to give tax breaks to oil companies and put that money towards R&D for battery technology, those problems could be solved. Or we could do like Israel is planning and have a battery exchange program where drivers, instead of filling their tanks, will pull into a battery station where they will exchange their discharged batteries for ones with a full charge.

There are all sorts of ways to get us off oil dependency. We've had oil men and women running the country for the past 7-1/2 years, which is why the government hasn't done much.

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1. 6/13/08
  
  dixiefilms
  
  Everyone should go for a month without driving....we'd see things change.
  
  And if everyone went without eating meat....we'd save the world.
  
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2. 6/21/08
  
  kat822
  
  Are you completely crazy? wait you belive in global warming , yeah you are crazy
6/13/08

dharmagypsy7

Quite frankly I get nervous when someone says we "must" do anything to stop Global Warming. Then it gets preachy and no one wants to get preached to. Here's my response to your vegetarians out there. blog.jollygreengirl.com/why-going-vegetarian-wont-solve-global-warming/

Love Vegetarians and Vegans but please don't start the whole "must go vegan" If it works for you, wonderful, but sounds holier than thou when you start sputtering the "must thing"

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6/14/08

balidreamhome

wooo hoooo, start from your own home buddy!!

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1. 6/21/08
  
  dixiefilms
  
  Give your thoughts of how we can save the planet....
  
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6/21/08

rearvumirr

I love the giggles I get here on BC!

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6/21/08

roentarre

Impossible to alter state of mother earth and nature

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6/21/08

Rozie818

I think if everyone on the planet farted upwards at the same time, it would clear out the bad air and give us another year of clean air.
We could have Fart Day every June 1st, I think I read somewhere that Farts travel farther in warmer weather.
I could be wrong though.
But either way, it would be a Holiday the whole world could share. ;-)

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6/21/08

talen32

If we stop eating them they fart more...eat more meat and save the world!

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6/21/08

leafsoup

What if we raised cattle on pasture (without growth hormones) instead of feed lots? The meat would be more expensive, so we would eat less. The meat and the cattle would be much healthier because they wouldn't need antibiotics to fight infections caused by being confined in filth and fed an unnatural diet. The manure would fertilize the grass instead of becoming toxic waste.

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6/21/08

bigbear6208

stop making things that make America such a lazy country

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1. 6/21/08
  
  leafsoup
  
  Like washing machines and microwave ovens???
6/21/08

bigbear6208

television is increasingly trapping young children in homes preventing them from enjoying the outdoors,

fast food restaurants have cheap prices that encourages us to buy more, ending up with over indulging, in turn creating ridiculous law suits like McDonald's made me eat too much. lol and plus fast food is accessible

this is sad but true now a days inventors work hard to be lazy.

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2/17/09

OneMuslim

STOP CANDLE LIGHT DINNER! it does romantic but its killing your world!

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