Posted on 02/29/2008 6:39:00 AM PST by Sub-Driver
On the Side: How big is your carbon footprint?
By Rick Nichols
Inquirer Food Columnist We are living, of course, in a carbon era, the evidence of which is not exactly subtle; witness the energy-rating tag on the Bosch dishwasher, the darkening image of "California organic," and, gusting across restaurant tables and grocery aisles, the spirited campaign, winning ground daily, against bottled water.
> The age's imperatives have supplanted, for the moment at least, the obsession with carbs (so 2005!), and for that matter, fats - except for trans fat - and even organic.
> "Possessing an excessive carbon footprint," as Michael Specter put it in last week's New Yorker, "is rapidly becoming the modern equivalent of wearing the scarlet letter."
> In this climate, the most-visible contributors of the greenhouse gases that trigger global warming are feeling heat: Ford has Diane Keaton shilling for its new hybrid. Sara Lee has gone solar in New Mexico.
> Most ambitiously, Britain's vast Tesco supermarkets chain is vowing to label groceries with their carbon count, a tally compiled from miles traveled, the fossil fuel used to process and package, and so on.
> In this last matter, the theory is that for shoppers for whom green is important, the choices will be clear - the carbon number as easy to compare as price or calories.
> Not that calories are so transparent outside the supermarket aisle: Chain restaurants are battling to keep them off menu boards. And if you're feeling ambivalent about that - if I may continue to digress - flip though a copy of Eat This Not That, the head-snapping new little picture book by David Zinczenko, editor of Men's Health.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
That's patently false! Al Gore has a HUGE footprint and he's the darling of their movement. In fact, all of the democrat leadership who promote this sort of insane view have huge footprints and no one questions it rather less views it as a scarlet letter.
Mine is not nearly as big as that of King Hypocrite, Mr. Global Warming, Al Gore.
;-)
I guess I’ll have to get used to the food police showing up to check on how I cook & mash my potatoes!
Worshipping at the alter of Global Warming and actually practicing “carbon friendliness” are two different things. Celebrities only need to worship while everyone else is supposed to suck it up.
I really don’t mind who shills for selling products, but one ad that really sets me off is the one with Sharon Lawrence telling us that all the polar bears are dieing because the polar ice is melting.
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 50
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 11.2 PLANETS.
My high score is due to the 3 long-haul international flights I made this year. Gotta visit Russia and Israel more frequently.
Notice GM isn't in there. The chairman has given them the finger, plus a thumb in their eye, and they are at a loss as to what to do. They simply go after the easy prey twice as hard.
This is their religion, and carbon is sin. A little odd, considering carbon is “gaia’s” main ingredient. But, oh well.
Is the size of your footprint indicative of the size fo your, um, you know other “appendages”?
All life on Earth is carbon based. The only way to stop global warming must be to kill all life on Earth.
This is like watching a car crash in slow motion. You know it’s gonna be bad, but you can’t do a damn thing about it.............
“They simply go after the easy prey twice as hard.”
Also why liberals attack Christians and Jews instead of Muslims.
In the meantime, temperatures across the country have been colder than average all winter...in fact, summer in the NE was cooler than average. Must be the pristine air from our lack of cities. /sarcasm
If Global Warming eventually becomes so apparently non existent even to the libs, then what will they do for pompous self-righteous aggrandizement?...........
I like how many of these articles that are posted have links that allow no comment once you reach their site. It is obvious that these columnists want to “educate” the public, but won’t allow the public to “educate” them in return.
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