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akuma587 said:
stof said:
Well it looks like I'm moving to South Korea for a year at the end of this month. Which means I'll be immersed in a much more veggie friendly culture. Bring on the Kimchi!

Damn stof, you move around like you were in the military or something.

 

Yup. I'm your typical vegetarian socialist hippy soldier :)

 



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I think the solution is to eat more cows so less of them will fart.



Coca-Cola said:
I think the solution is to eat more cows so less of them will fart.

That's my plan! What am I doing to stop global warming? I'm eating the damn cows!

 



here is the solution, rig up devices that Will catch the methane from the cows (while being comfortable for them to wear) and convert the methane to a usable fuel to power everyday item (generators, heat sources, cars) that way the methane cant float out in the air causing damage but rather provide an alternative to fossil fuels while keeping beef on my plate



 

stop global warming - promote the end of humanity. =D

I don't go only veggie, but I mix my meals. There will be days where I eat vegan meals, veggie meals, and then carnivorous meals. I generally eat chicken or fish, with red meat rarely. I don't do this for environmental reasons, I do it for health/weight loss reasons. Meat, especially beef, can take up to a month before it fully passes through your body. Most people eat 12-20 oz of meat a day. Recommended portions are 6-8 ounces per day.

If you're so worried about the environment, start elsewhere though. Do you know that only about 30% of the US is mandated to recycle? It amazes me that most cities and states either do not offer a recycling program at all, or don't mandate their residents to recycle. Schools are horrible at recycling, businesses too. If the US was at even 80% recycling, the amount of waste and deforestation would dramatically increase.

SO, if you want to fight a battle for mother earth, start petitions and get your senator/leader to start enforcing recycling in your state, province, nation, whatever. It'll do a lot more good than simply eating differently.



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im a meatetarian.



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akuma587 said:
I've got a solution that could solve both, kill off all the human population except 1 million and start over. Random lottery to decide who is killed, so its fair.

I am down, how about you guys? I mean we've already screwed up as a species in a lot of ways so far, why not just start over?

 

You're dripping with sarcasm... I hope. Killing people won't solve anything. Your post is rediculous; I actaully wrote a paper mocking global warming that followed Jonathan Swift's "a modest proposal" that suggested something simlar to what you stated, only in great detail and with persasuive argmetn in the precis form.



Tispower1 said:
I think more important than global warming, and more of a reason to switch to renewables, is the fact that oil is running out, and if oil ran out like today, we would not be prepared for it at all. Therefore we should be as prepared as possible.

There wasa great program the BBC did called Burn Up, which effectively was about how the Saudis had lied about how much oil there was left, and many people (mostly American :P) wanted to cover it up for fear of the economy, though eventually the Oil company CEO that found it, released it to the press.

As far as I'm concerned that's a much better reason, and one that isn't open to debate, after all it's not as if oil is infinite lol.

 

Renewable enregy is important. THe debate though is whether or not to switch to vegetarian in oder to save the planet. One person eating a couple thousand fewer burgers in their life won't do anything; heck even voting in the natinal election (USA) does nothing unless you live in a swing state, and even then your vote counts for almost nothing!



bardicverse said:
stop global warming - promote the end of humanity. =D

I don't go only veggie, but I mix my meals. There will be days where I eat vegan meals, veggie meals, and then carnivorous meals. I generally eat chicken or fish, with red meat rarely. I don't do this for environmental reasons, I do it for health/weight loss reasons. Meat, especially beef, can take up to a month before it fully passes through your body. Most people eat 12-20 oz of meat a day. Recommended portions are 6-8 ounces per day.

If you're so worried about the environment, start elsewhere though. Do you know that only about 30% of the US is mandated to recycle? It amazes me that most cities and states either do not offer a recycling program at all, or don't mandate their residents to recycle. Schools are horrible at recycling, businesses too. If the US was at even 80% recycling, the amount of waste and deforestation would dramatically increase.

SO, if you want to fight a battle for mother earth, start petitions and get your senator/leader to start enforcing recycling in your state, province, nation, whatever. It'll do a lot more good than simply eating differently.

 

Thats very true. It doesn't matter if a few people go overboard about helping the plnet if nobody else cares. Recyling is great; it reduces polution and helps the economy, and some think it helps with global warming (BS imo)

On a side note- what good does it do if the U.S. sacrifices it's economy to fight global warming (specifically thinking of Co2 creidts here) while countries like India and China continue to go beserk with dirty coll burining and other porven POLLUTANTS that are slowly drifitng across the Pacific Ocean to California and Japan and such?



Hawkeye said:

 

Thats very true. It doesn't matter if a few people go overboard about helping the plnet if nobody else cares. Recyling is great; it reduces polution and helps the economy, and some think it helps with global warming (BS imo)

On a side note- what good does it do if the U.S. sacrifices it's economy to fight global warming (specifically thinking of Co2 creidts here) while countries like India and China continue to go beserk with dirty coll burining and other porven POLLUTANTS that are slowly drifitng across the Pacific Ocean to California and Japan and such?

How about leadership by example instead of an "he is doing it too" attitude? Also, if managed properly, there are ways to maybe turn a long-term profit on alternative energy and efficiency.  Eventually all countries will be either producing the renewable energy technology or importing it depending on whether they had the proper vision to invest in its R&D. Which of those countries do you want to be? Also, I'd rather buy my energy from a local renewable producer (such as a municipal wind/solar farms) than from multi-national oil conglomerates.