Walking to the store is more damaging to the earth than driving there?
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Walking to the store is more damaging to the earth than driving there?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2195538.ece
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Walking does more than driving to cause global warming, a leading environmentalist has calculated.
Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV rather than leaving it on standby.
Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV rather than leaving it on standby.
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"The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes"
Ahhh... and there's the problem with this study, assuming it's credible. How many people that drive consume just enough calories to sustain life? The problem is that you're mostly likely driving to or from the grocery store or fast food drive through. This study might be beneficial if we lived in 1940-1952 food-rationed Europe.
Ahhh... and there's the problem with this study, assuming it's credible. How many people that drive consume just enough calories to sustain life? The problem is that you're mostly likely driving to or from the grocery store or fast food drive through. This study might be beneficial if we lived in 1940-1952 food-rationed Europe.
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