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rockermike

Trad climber

Berkeley

Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 13, 2014 - 08:50am PT

Cowspiricy: A Sustainability Secret

http://vimeo.com/95436726
http://vimeo.com/93865589
http://vimeo.com/93871540

http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/

Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.

(Goodland, R Anhang, J. “Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change were pigs, chickens and cows?”)

you mean driving a Prius doesn't save the earth? :)

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Dec 13, 2014 - 09:19am PT

it would be particularly bad if they were eating coal and drinking petroleum...

but eating hay? where does that carbon come from? the atmosphere... so what's the net change in the Carbon Cycle?

the machinery that uses energy to farm the cattle might be an interesting place to look for a carbon footprint, that falls under the category of modern farm technology...

interestingly, the total weight of the indigenous N. American bison herds is about the same as the farmed cattle that now occupy the same lands... and the bison didn't need modern farming techniques to achieve that "productivity."

zBrown

Ice climber

Brujò de la Playa

Dec 13, 2014 - 12:53pm PT

Interestingly, I just got my SDG&E report card and am informed that I use 39% less energy than my efficient and comparable house size neighbors.

Who are they? "Approximately 100 occupied nearby homes that are similar in size and have both electricity and natural gas service."

WBraun

climber

Dec 13, 2014 - 04:44pm PT

The western world predominately slaughters with mechanized industrial tools the mother and father of the planet daily in ignorance.

Thus they do not deserve a stable climate any more.

They get extremes everywhere.

Stooopid stooopid ignorant western fools and their idiotic mental speculations of what is what.

They really have no clue whatsoever ....