Comment of the day.

[Stormin]

Just been a bit on the news this morning, about people clubbing together and chartering planes to go on holiday.  Comment of the day comes from some well informed enviromentalist.  First he mentioned 4x4's and the usual blurb.  :roll:  Then he said chartering a plane was like putting wings on a Range Rover. :shock:  :lol:

[datalas]

So a plane does 25 mpg on a good day, and takes four passengers in ultimate comfort?  Cool

/me saves up for a learjet,  wonder if the AWC accept them :D

[muddyweb]

Stupid people....   must resist the temptation to rant.

Points West did a little article about travelling food on the lunchtime news yesterday... I missed the full report last night, but the jist of it was that they went around a "local" market and calculated the number of miles a sunday lunch had travelled...  (e.g.  NZ Lamb : 11,000 miles, African Beans : 7,000 miles, etc.)...  They worked out that with "normal" items, it had travelled over 47,000 miles !

Then they went around the market and bought a 'local' sunday lunch...  same items but with less than 100 miles between them.

Nodoby much makes a fuss about it though, because the supermarkets have marketed us all to damnation and convinced us that we need cheaper food, and that importing it is the best was to get that.

It takes something like 37 Kg of CO2 to transport 1Kg of Lamb from NZ....   I've said it sooo many times before...  that is *not* environmentally friendly.......   Society needs to make a stand.



Hmm... I never was very good at resisting temptation :-)

[Stormin]

Sunday lunch NZ lamb and African beans? :shock:  For 58 years I've been mislead.  I thought it was roast beef and yorkshire pudding.  :D

[TUFFTEE]

The Meals of the Future will be from Mars and Venus! and they will still say it's all local produce! :?

[muddyweb]

Sunday lunch NZ lamb and African beans? :shock:  For 58 years I've been mislead.  I thought it was roast beef and yorkshire pudding.  :D

You can have Argentinian Beef and American flour then  :(stoopid):

[jnoshea]

The general public simply have no idea that their food travels great distances and that this is a major factor in climate change.  Even if you say NZ lamb to them it still won't click immediately.  The media say nothing about this. The supermarkets don't even have an extra special very expensive section for local produce where we can have the option.  The environmentalists will always target 4x4s first because they're easy for most people to do without so it doesn't effect them in the slightest.  The they might go on to flight, but tone it down so that the annual trip to Spain doesn't make people feal guilty, even after they progress to energy efficiency in the home I still don't think they'll ever get round to discussing imported food.   :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted:

I'm always made to feel guilty about my Land Rover by people who can't be bothered to weigh up how much carbon the rest of my lifestyle produces, or theirs for that matter. There are some really dedicated environmentalists out there that know their facts and see the whole picture .  I applaud these people  =D> , but unfortunately they are a select few who are highly qualified.  The rest of the public (many with too much time and too little information) are at the mercy of the media as always.

<Monthly carbon rant over>  :D