There is nothing, nothing that environmental zealots won't blame on selfish Americans..."American meat eaters are responsible for 1.5 more tons of carbon dioxide per person than vegetarians every year."
So says Brad Knickerbocker, staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor.
"Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious environmental problems," Henning Steinfeld, senior author of the report, said when the FAO findings were released in November.
Livestock are responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions as measured in carbon dioxide equivalent, reports the FAO. This includes 9 percent of all CO2 emissions, 37 percent of methane, and 65 percent of nitrous oxide. Altogether, that's more than the emissions caused by transportation.
The latter two gases are particularly troubling – even though they represent far smaller concentrations in atmosphere than CO2, which remains the main global warming culprit. But methane has 23 times the global warming potential (GWP) of CO2 and nitrous oxide has 296 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide.
Craven, wretched liberals want to tax ALL human activity in one form or another anyway, so as long as they can maintain world-wide hysteria about the myth that is man-made global warming, why not tax everything that they deem contributory to it? Coming soon to your town...a methane tax on all beef consumption.
You think I'm joking? Just you wait.
Hat tip to Christian Science Monitor
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