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Junk Mail Produces as Much CO2 as 7 States Combined (This is Hugh!)
Daily Green ^ | Aug. 8, 2008 | Dan Shapely

Posted on 08/09/2008 3:00:18 PM PDT by PROCON

How to Stop the Flood of Catalogs (and Help Save the Climate)

A report by the group ForestEthics estimates that destroying forests to make paper for junk mail releases as much greenhouse gas pollution as 9 million cars.

Another way to look at it: Junk mail produces as much pollution as seven U.S. states combined, or as much as heating 13 million homes each winter.

While the estimates may or may not be accurate, the point is indisputable: Junk mail is a waste. (To most people, it's an annoying part of the trip to the mailbox, anyway.)

Not convinced? NASA climate scientist James Hansen, one of the most respected voices on the issue of global warming and our need to do something about it, had this to say about the report

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailygreen.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bogus; globalwarming; junkscience; madeup
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1 posted on 08/09/2008 3:00:19 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON
Series?
2 posted on 08/09/2008 3:03:39 PM PDT by pipecorp ( Al Lahsucks (boat steersman ) hell)
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

3 posted on 08/09/2008 3:06:32 PM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: PROCON

I suspect the Sunday edition of the New York Times alone would come close. And that is even more of a waste.


4 posted on 08/09/2008 3:08:35 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: PROCON

Now here is a target I could get behind reducing.


5 posted on 08/09/2008 3:09:38 PM PDT by highlander_UW (illegal alien is to an undocumented worker as a drug dealer is to an unlicensed pharmacist)
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To: PROCON
NASA's "climate scientist" James Hansen! ROTFLMAO!!!

These people are idiots! Hansen lost his credibility A LONG TIME AGO!

6 posted on 08/09/2008 3:10:44 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("I'm trying to save the planet!" - Nancy Pelosi ..........ROTFLMAO! What a dumbass!)
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To: PROCON

I have tried everything I know to stop my flood of junk-mail. NOTHING works. I get several pounds of paper crammed in my mailbox weekly.


7 posted on 08/09/2008 3:11:25 PM PDT by devane617 (we are so screwed)
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To: PROCON

Now, let’s see how many posts it’ll be before some doofus starts babbling about the 1st Abendment, or about the jobs that this garbage creates.


8 posted on 08/09/2008 3:12:18 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Are you ready to pray for Teddy?)
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To: devane617
Here, read this and repent! :-)


9 posted on 08/09/2008 3:13:50 PM PDT by PROCON (No more politics, I promise!)
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To: PROCON

Probably every piece of printed paper any of us has ever seen in our lifetime has come from a huge tree farm somewhere in the northwest, so pretending it has anything to do with the primitive types hacking away in the beloved Amazon is as much of a scam as CO2 “emissions”.

That said, I hate the endless coupons, ads, and other cheap crap constantly being hawked via my mailbox. The reason this stuff exists is that is massively subsidizes the post office’s delivery of regular mail.

This on top of the massive subsidies the post office gets every year as it hemorrhages billions. Naturally, nobody has to put up with this from FedEx/UPS/DHL because they have to earn your business voluntarily instead of by gov’t fiat.

So the solution is to shut down the job-mill known as the US post office. There really is no reason for its existence.


10 posted on 08/09/2008 3:14:58 PM PDT by BobbyT
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To: PROCON

Quick quiz:

Who knows which of mans activities produces the greatest amount of CO2?

Hint: the answer is not hard to find, and it has absolutely nothing to do with fossil fuels.


11 posted on 08/09/2008 3:15:18 PM PDT by djf (Get ready! Buy Cheez Wiz! It goes with anything!)
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Who knows which of mans activities produces the greatest amount of CO2?

I'll say breathing.

Do I win something?

12 posted on 08/09/2008 3:17:56 PM PDT by PROCON (No more politics, I promise!)
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To: PROCON

Only if you were right!

but... keep trying!


13 posted on 08/09/2008 3:19:51 PM PDT by djf (Get ready! Buy Cheez Wiz! It goes with anything!)
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To: PROCON
Soon these Greenmaniacs will start looking at the carbon footprint of books. When everything under the sun is eliminated for its carbon footprint, these Chicken Little's will wonder why the Earth's temperature is still going up.

Their stupidity is matched by their chicken sized brains.

14 posted on 08/09/2008 3:21:46 PM PDT by jonrick46
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To: PROCON

If you really want to get people on board, calculate how much glo-bull warming email spam causes. Now THAT’s a cause I could get behind.

Or the heck with spam, how about the waste of electricity these flash banners use? Surely that’s contributing to man-made glo-bull warming?

Algore? Are you there? After all, you did invent the danged internet, why don’t you fix it?


15 posted on 08/09/2008 3:24:56 PM PDT by jim35 ("...when the lion and the lamb lie down together, ...we'd better damn sure be the lion")
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To: djf
but... keep trying!

Ok, it's got to be the Karl Rove weather machine!

16 posted on 08/09/2008 3:24:56 PM PDT by PROCON (No more politics, I promise!)
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peta said eating meat causes more greenhouse gasses than all cars combined - but algore said he is ‘addicted’ to meat so he can't be expected to give it up to save the planet

seems to me if these people believe that the planet is really in peril, they would all give up eating meat - and give up their pets - and boycott malls, theaters and sports arenas

but i guess that would be ‘inconvenient’

17 posted on 08/09/2008 3:29:37 PM PDT by sloop (pfc in the quiet civil war)
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To: PROCON

I don’t believe CO2 is a problem, as plants naturally absorb it and by doing so grow and emit oxygen.

That said, I think everyone would like to receive less junk mail. But don’t tie the two unrelated items together under the global warming hoax.


18 posted on 08/09/2008 3:34:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: PROCON
This is starting to get me angry.

These folks pile lies on top of lies...seems like just to test our gullibility level.

1 - The Greenhouse Effect is not a bad thing...without it Earth would be uninhabitable because it would be too COLD.
2 - CO2 is NOT pollution, plants consume it and produce O for us to breath, without it we would all die.
3 - CO2 comprises less .04% (less than 1/25 of 1%) of "Greenhouse Gases" (Nitrogen and Oxygen account for over 99% of "Greenhouse Gases").
4 - Respiration (predominantly exhaling) accounts for most of the CO2.

My research indicates that if all of the global warming activists would just SHUT THE HELL UP...they would reduce CO2 emissions by as much as 25 States.

19 posted on 08/09/2008 3:34:27 PM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: PROCON; sloop

I have read it on a couple sites and went to verify it. So there seems to be some dispute.

Production of concrete.

(no net gain in CO2, though, because as the concrete sets, it re-absorbs the CO2 back out of the atmosphere)


20 posted on 08/09/2008 3:34:33 PM PDT by djf (Get ready! Buy Cheez Wiz! It goes with anything!)
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