Posted on 06/05/2008 11:59:50 AM PDT by PROCON
ROME - Better insulation at home, less use of the car and even giving up an electric toothbrush can help people in rich nations halve emissions of greenhouse gases, a UN report said on Thursday.
"Adopting a climate-friendly lifestyle needn't require drastic changes or major sacrifices," according to the 202-page UN Environment Programme (UNEP) book entitled "Kick the CO2 Habit: the UN Guide to Climate Neutrality". Issued to mark the UN's annual World Environment Day on June 5, it outlines ways for people to combat global warming with measures such as packing lighter suitcases when flying or going jogging in a park rather than on an electric treadmill.
World emissions of greenhouse gases blamed by the UN Climate Panel for heating the globe total about 4.5 tonnes per person for all of the world's 6.7 billion population.
Most efforts to slow climate change focus on the role of governments -- such as in rules for emissions from cars or power plants or building codes to help avert projected impacts such as droughts, heat waves, more powerful storms or rising seas.
(Excerpt) Read more at planetark.org ...
Ping!
How exactly does ditching an electric toothbrush help global warming?
Oh wait, we’re not supposed to ask, just comply.
Hey, my teeth have all rotted out but at least I’m saving the planet!
This information brought to you by the 6 THOUSAND plus representatives at this conference. While they burn up the fuel and eat like kings, the rest of us peons (aka little people) are told to quit using electric toothbrushes..
just. shakin. my. head.
They can pry my Braun Oral B from my cold, dead fingers....
ROFLOL, thanks, I needed a laugh after all this AGW BS!
Never mind the gas used to get to the park.
F#$% you and GTFO out of my country.
In honor of World Environment Day, I’m going to drive home at 70 mph in my SUV with the air conditioning on, fire up the barbeque grill and throw on two big, fat Porterhouse steaks, and after dinner light up a nice Oliva Series V cigar in my hot tub. If I’m really lucky, maybe I’ll hit an endangered species on the way home.
Why not take the UN Building off the NYC power grid?
Good, hopefully some of these green morons will fly to Europe and never come back.
Dear Boss, Sorry I will not be returning to work anytime soon since I am avoiding a carbon binge.
Isn’t it amazing how far this nonsense has gotten in such a short time?
I don’t brush my teeth during peak generation hours. That helps a little, I’m sure.
And how much energy and water would urinals designed for females save, too? One gallon per flush when women pee, one litre per flush for men. I don’t get it. And all the energy consumed in the pumping, cleaning, storing, and disposing of all that water? Could we possibly break our dependence on foreign oil if working women would learn a new trick?
(See, PROCON, some of us can make this stuff up.)
But the U.N. could at least thank me for trading in my gasoline powered toothbrush for an electric one.
My kids will never give up their singing toothbrushes.
It is truely unprecedented!
Here’s to wondering what temperature the UN building is kept at during the summer...
They should have to set their thermostats to 85 in the summer and 62 in the winter.
They can pry my electric toothbrush from my cold dead fingers!
Most of the UN has already given up deodorant as well...
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