This seems to be one of the hottest topics right now, Going Green to help save mother earth. Apparently more and more people are getting into this going green business. To those people who is really into it I just have to say that I respect that you feel the need to share this information about how to go green with me but to force it down my throat is plain preposterous. Like seriously.
I admit I don't do my part in helping curb greenhouse gas emissions. I know I should and maybe in due time I will. Maybe. Now before you gag me with more information about how to go green, I'd like to post a question to those who claim that they are truly 'green'.
Do you eat meat?
I ask because studies show that by eating meat, we actually contribute more greenhouse gasses than driving a car. Don't believe me? Well it's fact. Contaminated runoffs from slaughterhouses is a major source of water pollution. Livestock itself contributes to 18% of greenhouse gases just from letting one rip from ones behind (farting). That is more than all planes, trains and automobiles put together.
Now you could retaliate by saying that if everyone drove a hybrid than it would be better. By golly you are terribly WRONG! Facts : batteries in hybrid cars contain nickel that is mined and smelted in a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. A plant that causes so much environmental damage and acid rain that NASA uses the area of the plant to test their moon rovers. The nickel is then shifted to a refinery in Europe by massive container then its off to China to be made into nickel foam, then to Japan to be manufactured. Then finally, to the Malaysia or any other regions of the world. All that just to put a blardy hybrid battery into a car. If you were to combine all the energy it takes to build & drive a hybrid, it adds up to almost 50% more than to build and drive a Hummer. (That's a car that does 10 miles to the gallon)
Although a hybrid can save you fuel, but because they do so, people are driving more which results in more fuel consumption than gas powered cars.
So what, we should all start walking instead of driving? Wrong again. Why? Well because since the increase energy it takes makes people eat more which causes the proliferation of slaughter houses.
So to those Green people, I just have one thing to say to you. We can cut down greenhouse emissions but it doesn't require you to make me go to the extreme. You expect me to not eat meat? Are you out of your freaking mind. You expect me to buy a hybrid car? Go and read about the hybrid car (4th paragraph). You expect me to walk instead of drive? Read paragraph 6.
Ask people to switch off the lights when they aren't in the room. Use florescent lights for your houses instead. These are one of the many examples of simple ways to reduce greenhouse emissions. These are the kinda things that you should be telling people rather than threatening them graphical imagery of how global warming is killing us. Start small! WRITE THAT DOWN -V.W