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Reasons Not to Shower
AIA-FL Blog ^ | December 10, 2009 | Bethany Stotts

Posted on 12/10/2009 10:23:10 AM PST by bs9021

Reasons Not to Shower

Bethany Stotts, December 10, 2009

One Edinburgh University climate scientist argues in a December New Scientist article that common activities such as washing clothes, using toilet paper and drinking coffee are among the “five eco-crimes we commit every day.”

“I have long argued that climate change begins at home,” writes Dr. David Reay, senior lecturer on Global Change at Edinburgh. “Each of us in the developed world has played our part in creating this problem and, while there is no doubt that coordinated global action is needed to tackle it, we can each be part of the solution.” Reay is the author of Your Planet Needs You! A Kid’s Guide to Going Green.

His list of five everyday eco-crimes are:

1. Coffee. Apparently six-cups-a-day off this wake-up beverage can clock “up more than 175 kilograms of CO2 each year. That’s the equivalent of a flight across Europe—from London to Rome, say.”

“Add milk, and the methane belched by dairy cows means you increase your coffee’s climate-changing emissions by more than a third.”...

(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: climatechange; davidreay; ecocrimes; globalwarming; humor
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To: bs9021

This guy and all of his friends should simply seal all of the orifices on their body and accept the result. If they believe the carbon dioxide crap argument then they should be the first ones willing to take a dirt nap for the benefit of mother earth.


41 posted on 12/10/2009 11:15:05 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: bs9021
1. Coffee. Apparently six-cups-a-day off this wake-up beverage can clock “up more than 175 kilograms of CO2 each year. That’s the equivalent of a flight across Europe—from London to Rome, say.”

“Add milk, and the methane belched by dairy cows means you increase your coffee’s climate-changing emissions by more than a third.”..

These people are certifiably insane.

42 posted on 12/10/2009 11:17:49 AM PST by giotto
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To: bs9021

Just making excuses for the unbearable smelliness of hippies.


43 posted on 12/10/2009 11:20:49 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: ironwill

I thought bidets are used in countries where people bathe infrequently (in Germany, once a week).

Reminds me of a Monty Python skit about patriotism and xenophobia:

“And you can keep your fastidious Continental bidets, Mrs. Foreigner! Mrs. Britain knows how to keep HER feet clean!”

;^)


44 posted on 12/10/2009 11:21:51 AM PST by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: bs9021

I’m so glad I’m not part of this cult, I don’t have to obey any of their edicts.


45 posted on 12/10/2009 11:23:18 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: marron

BUMP!!!!!!!!

Post of the day!


46 posted on 12/10/2009 11:23:41 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: bs9021

“Now, Dr. Reay didn’t actually advocate a reduction in showers as a solution to climate change, but Lewis Page over at The Register argues that it’s a natural next conclusion”

For once, the French are ahead of the curve.


47 posted on 12/10/2009 11:27:43 AM PST by beelzepug (This administration is a tagline-rich environment.)
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To: bs9021
1. Coffee. Apparently six-cups-a-day off this wake-up beverage can clock “up more than 175 kilograms of CO2 each year. That’s the equivalent of a flight across Europe—from London to Rome, say.”

Still less than one of Pelosi's taxpayer-paid flights from DC to SF.

48 posted on 12/10/2009 11:29:15 AM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: Fred Hayek; ctdonath2

I don’t believe that the author, whose picture is with the article, is the one advocating these “reasons”. My reaction was that she was making fun of whoever it was that had done so.


49 posted on 12/10/2009 11:33:11 AM PST by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: TruthConquers
This is THEIR religion. They are free to follow it to their hearts content.

Including exercising their right not to breed and to euthanize themselves as soon as they are no longer "useful" to the rest of us, but they should leave me and my family alone!

50 posted on 12/10/2009 11:35:10 AM PST by Tamar1973 (http://koreanforniancooking.blogspot.com/)
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

51 posted on 12/10/2009 11:42:03 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
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To: Tamar1973

Agreed!!!


52 posted on 12/10/2009 11:42:51 AM PST by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: bs9021
I always remember the old sci-fi post apocalyptic films where everything was dirty, gritty and sweaty. Think “Soylent Green”, “Blade Runner”, etc.

Now we know, it was a choice shoved down people's throats by the Greens.

53 posted on 12/10/2009 11:52:50 AM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution - 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: bs9021

Liberals = Smelly Hippies with dirty bottoms.


54 posted on 12/10/2009 12:45:22 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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