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How can a serious Global Warming proponent not become vegetarian?
Methane gas is a huge contributor to short term global warming, and the largest contributor to methane gas is animal agriculture, yet even the leaders of the carbon footprint proponents, such as Al Gore, refuse to do something as simple as change their diet. How can we believe they are serious if they will not make such simple sacrifices?
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November 06, 2009 10:10 AM
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If someone is going to become vegitarian, they should do it because they really believe it is the right thing for them to do, rather than doing it because they think they have to in order to survive. It isn't an easy thing to do and there has to be a bigger (higher) motivation than animalistic self-preservation.
Global warming's biggest contributing gas is water vapor. I read that it makes up something like 95% of greenhouse gases. The little bit of carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and whatever else is pretty insignificant. The best solution I can think of is for us to plant more food and more trees. I read that because of the increased availability of carbon, the plants need less water (hence the increase in water vapor). They also grow faster and with a higher yield with the extra CO2, and I've noticed the growing seasons appear to be longer. Everything seems to point to us needing to grow more food and trees instead of putting so much wasted energy into controlling/reducing emissions. Be fruitful and multiply, you know?
As for Al Gore, he isn't someone to go expecting morality from. He is not serious and neither you nor anyone else should take him seriously as long as his actions, lifestyle, and words don't match up. He's dense. When he speaks, I just pretend he's telling some kind of fanciful story and go about my life completely disregarding whatever it is he's concerned about.
Global warming's biggest contributing gas is water vapor. I read that it makes up something like 95% of greenhouse gases. The little bit of carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and whatever else is pretty insignificant. The best solution I can think of is for us to plant more food and more trees. I read that because of the increased availability of carbon, the plants need less water (hence the increase in water vapor). They also grow faster and with a higher yield with the extra CO2, and I've noticed the growing seasons appear to be longer. Everything seems to point to us needing to grow more food and trees instead of putting so much wasted energy into controlling/reducing emissions. Be fruitful and multiply, you know?
As for Al Gore, he isn't someone to go expecting morality from. He is not serious and neither you nor anyone else should take him seriously as long as his actions, lifestyle, and words don't match up. He's dense. When he speaks, I just pretend he's telling some kind of fanciful story and go about my life completely disregarding whatever it is he's concerned about.
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November 05, 2009 07:05 PM
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This reminds me of the following questions . . .
How can a dietitian be overweight?
How can a coach be unfit?
How can a nurse or doctor smoke?
The quick answer is: It is always easier to give advice then follow it.
" . . . do something as simple as change their diet." This implies that becoming a vegitarian is easy. I am not sure if you ever tried it. I did and was able to stick with it for a whole month.
It was NOT easy. Having a salad while everyone around me is having steak, foregoing half the foods at a party, getting funny looks from friends who know you were eating meat last week . . . this was one of the toughest things I had ever tried. I may try again one day, but it is far more likely I will simply cut down on meat.
Now Gore in particular has something else to consider, Farmers . . . Right now organic growers love him, but if he started talking about how steak adds to the methane in the air meat producing farmers as well as butchers, food companies, friends of farmers, . . . .would jump on the anti-gore bandwagon. By targeting "money grubbing" big business first, he may be able to drum up more sympathy and more support for his cause.
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How can a dietitian be overweight?
How can a coach be unfit?
How can a nurse or doctor smoke?
The quick answer is: It is always easier to give advice then follow it.
" . . . do something as simple as change their diet." This implies that becoming a vegitarian is easy. I am not sure if you ever tried it. I did and was able to stick with it for a whole month.
It was NOT easy. Having a salad while everyone around me is having steak, foregoing half the foods at a party, getting funny looks from friends who know you were eating meat last week . . . this was one of the toughest things I had ever tried. I may try again one day, but it is far more likely I will simply cut down on meat.
Now Gore in particular has something else to consider, Farmers . . . Right now organic growers love him, but if he started talking about how steak adds to the methane in the air meat producing farmers as well as butchers, food companies, friends of farmers, . . . .would jump on the anti-gore bandwagon. By targeting "money grubbing" big business first, he may be able to drum up more sympathy and more support for his cause.
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About the same way they can drive to work.
It's pretty much impossible not to contribute somewhat to global warming. You can choose to try to moderate it and to point society towards solving it. If biodiesel were sufficiently available we could drive to work without guilt. If farmers switched from cattle to kangaroos the methane/meat problem would be solved. There are solutions to everything if we only acknowledge the problems and try to solve them instead of sticking our heads in the sand. But we can't solve world problems just by changing our personal behavior. If half the country rides bicycles all the time but the other half drives Hummers we are still all doomed. World wide problems have to be solved by national and international laws and treaties. Such as the ones Gore is fighting for.
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It's pretty much impossible not to contribute somewhat to global warming. You can choose to try to moderate it and to point society towards solving it. If biodiesel were sufficiently available we could drive to work without guilt. If farmers switched from cattle to kangaroos the methane/meat problem would be solved. There are solutions to everything if we only acknowledge the problems and try to solve them instead of sticking our heads in the sand. But we can't solve world problems just by changing our personal behavior. If half the country rides bicycles all the time but the other half drives Hummers we are still all doomed. World wide problems have to be solved by national and international laws and treaties. Such as the ones Gore is fighting for.
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November 06, 2009 01:00 PM
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While I agree that there may be some hypocrisy or "back pedaling" going on, I think that because the issue of global warming is so large and complex, and because the things that we do to contribute to the problem are so varied (driving, using air conditioning, using clothes dryers, buying long-distance produce, buying inefficient electric appliances, the list goes on and on...), it is important to realize that each one of us needs to find the right set of "behavior modifications" that work for us. "All or nothing" is not the game we want to play.
Of course a high profile person like Al Gore has more of a responsibility to make those simple sacrifices because he is a potential role model for so many. But it would be unfortunate if we lost sight of the good things that he has done in our attention to the details of his lifestyle...
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Of course a high profile person like Al Gore has more of a responsibility to make those simple sacrifices because he is a potential role model for so many. But it would be unfortunate if we lost sight of the good things that he has done in our attention to the details of his lifestyle...
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take it one more step and you will see how ridiculous all of this is. if you are serious about global warming, then the human race must go. bu then, how would global warming matter if its supposed biggest causal agent were no longer here?
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