12-24-2012, 08:51 PM
|
#271 (permalink)
|
...beats walking...
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: .
Posts: 6,190
Thanks: 179
Thanked 1,525 Times in 1,126 Posts
|
...nah, the newest "in-thing" is using "...both sides of a single sheet of toilet paper..." (wink,wink)!
|
|
|
The Following User Says Thank You to gone-ot For This Useful Post:
|
|
Today
|
|
|
Other popular topics in this forum...
|
|
|
12-25-2012, 08:23 AM
|
#272 (permalink)
|
EcoModding Alien Observer
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: I flitter here and there
Posts: 547
Thanks: 6
Thanked 78 Times in 65 Posts
|
I recycle cause I'm cheap. I fill maybe one bag per month at ~$3 each....the rest gets hauled by myself to a recycling place when I go shopping for food, etc.
I use only one side of the toilet paper though...not THAT cheap.
Humans ARE essentially walking alimentary canals...in one end...then out the other. All else revolves around this basic function....people stop wars...sex...raising children to eat & drink don't they?
__________________
Carry on humans...we are extremely proud of you. ..................
Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years. GALLUP POLL
|
|
|
12-25-2012, 01:55 PM
|
#273 (permalink)
|
Master EcoModder
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Earth
Posts: 5,209
Thanks: 225
Thanked 811 Times in 594 Posts
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by suspectnumber961
I recycle cause I'm cheap.
|
Exactly. And I throw away much less trash than the average person because I'm too cheap & lazy to work my butt off paying for a consumerist lifestyle, and all the extra packaging material that would go into the trash.
And because I've been cheap for a good few years now, I have sufficient investment income that I don't actually have to work to maintain my basic non-consumerist lifestyle. Which, I should point out, has not been without its luxuries, like a plane, a horse, and a large garden full of trees & flowers - even if it does lack a 60" TV in every room :-)
|
|
|
12-25-2012, 02:09 PM
|
#274 (permalink)
|
Not Doug
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Show Low, AZ
Posts: 12,232
Thanks: 7,254
Thanked 2,231 Times in 1,721 Posts
|
This is a couple of years old, but I just read about it: Big polluters: one massive container ship equals 50 million cars
The article focused on sulfur, but according to Wikipeida, "Carbon dioxide emissions from shipping is estimated to be 4 to 5 percent of the global total." [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environ...t_of_shipping]
According to the article, cargo ships use the cheapest and dirtiest fuel, so I imagine that they were forced to run cleaner, they would need better fuel, and not only would trade cost more, but the price of fuel would go up.
So, rely on domestic marketing, upgrade the rail system, use electric trains, and power them by burning hippies!
Perfect!
Hippies are a clean fuel, right?
|
|
|
12-25-2012, 11:12 PM
|
#275 (permalink)
|
Master EcoModder
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Earth
Posts: 5,209
Thanks: 225
Thanked 811 Times in 594 Posts
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Xist
|
Misleading, at best. The "pollution" they talk about is mostly particulates &c, which is basically irrelevant to global warming. If they were magically converted to diesels meeting the highest pollution standards, they would still be emitting almost exactly the same amount of CO2.
|
|
|
12-25-2012, 11:53 PM
|
#276 (permalink)
|
Not Doug
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Show Low, AZ
Posts: 12,232
Thanks: 7,254
Thanked 2,231 Times in 1,721 Posts
|
How about this explanation: China's sulfur pollution deflected the sun's rays enough to keep the temperature constant until they began scrubbing the particulates. Or something.
Global warming slowed by China sulfur pollution - CBS News
|
|
|
12-26-2012, 12:58 AM
|
#277 (permalink)
|
Master EcoModder
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Philippines
Posts: 2,173
Thanks: 1,739
Thanked 589 Times in 401 Posts
|
It's been widely theorized that restrictions on sulfur emissions in the US accelerated global warming in the 80s.
|
|
|
12-28-2012, 12:06 PM
|
#278 (permalink)
|
The PRC.
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Elsewhere.
Posts: 5,304
Thanks: 285
Thanked 536 Times in 384 Posts
|
Whatever has "caused the pause", thats 16 years without warming now.
__________________
[I]So long and thanks for all the fish.[/I]
|
|
|
12-28-2012, 03:39 PM
|
#280 (permalink)
|
Not Doug
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Show Low, AZ
Posts: 12,232
Thanks: 7,254
Thanked 2,231 Times in 1,721 Posts
|
Was it two years ago that all fifty states had snow? I understand that people in Florida and Texas were highly surprised.
|
|
|
|