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 ...
especially when the entire premise can't be questioned - placed off limits by declaring 'the facts are beyond dispute'
I can't wait until this BS is finally debunked and Hansen and his stupid pronouncements go away.
Better be careful. How far do you think breaking is down the line? Just think of all the CO2 we produce.
Be careful. How far do you think breathing is down the line? Just think of all the CO2 we produce.
Thank you for the GORAN. It just about gave my hysterics.
The answer is breathing.....
Coming in second is drinking beer and cokes. All, that is all, the entrained CO2 making the fizz carbonates the atmosphere when released.
Beer and cokes must go
For junk mail, write “DECLINED” on it and put it back in the post. It will stop a lot of it.
Just thought this might interest you, if you didn’t see it already.
Another aspect to consider in our recent discussion about the USPS.
The CO2 crap from the econinnies is just that, crap...but if I can use the progressive idiots to rid myself of junk mail they will have proved themselves useful for once.
So Algore will support our proposal : )
I saw that the price of the Sunday NYT is 5 dollars. What a joke. Who on Earth pays 5 bucks to read that crap?
Mebbe. ;)
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