From: [Jean]
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:04 AM
To: ProudToBeCanadian.ca
Subject: Now we have to be vegetarians to save the planet.Jean
Here’s part of the article:
Lord Stern’s zany warning: Is this the silliest statement ever on Climate Change?
There must be some sort of global competition at the moment to see who can come up with the most ridiculous dire warning about the effects of climate change. Up until today Kofi Annan, Al Gore, Ban Ki-Moon and Gordon Brown were all leading contenders. Former Secretary General Annan claims that 300,000 people a year are being killed by climate change. Ban and Brown think we have just months to secure the future of our planet, and Gore believes in torturing us with disaster movies dressed up as documentaries.
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And what is one of Stern’s top solutions in preventing this impending global catastrophe? Er – stop eating meat. Baron Stern, who headed an influential 700-page 2006 Review on the Economics of Climate Change, predicts that the world will eventually come to its senses by ending its carnivorous habits, once people realize the impact grazing on meat has on greenhouse gases. Stern tells The Times that “meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.” …
Hey Jean,
Yes this made me laugh. Of course laughing exhausts a lot of CO2, but I felt it was worth it. I’ll buy me some more o’ them “carbon offsets” to make up for it. Which reminds me: if I weren’t even alive, there’d be even less global warming. But there’s not much I can do about that! Or is there?! I understand that cow flatulence is evil, and humans are evil, and if I understand many liberals correctly, and I do, there’s too many of both of us, and we need to somehow reduce the population.
And even if all we humans ate were beans, why then there’d be even more human flatulence (and more of those brainy sitcoms on the CBC!), so there’s just no winning this thing. I wonder what’s OK to leave on the planet. Birds? Ants? Liberals only? Or am I being redundant?
As the writer in your article, Nile Gardiner, says: “His monumentally silly remarks about turning the planet vegetarian will only drive another nail into the credibility of the climate hysteria movement.”
Amen. Another nail into the COFFIN, as it were. And he’s got the right coffin in mind.
Joel
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