On Global Warming- a wake up call!
By cripfemme
@cripfemme (7698)
United States
February 16, 2008 9:53pm CST
Every American eats on average 3 cheese burgers per week. That might be gross, as it is in my opinion. There are about 300,000,000 million Americans. Acording to scientist Jamai Casion, who appeared in a global warming special called Six Degrees Could Change the World on the aired on the National Geographic channel recently. All the cheeseburgers have a carbon footprint of 200 million metric tons of green house gashouse gas emissions (most of which is methane due to cow flatulence) yearly from just cheeseburgers in the US alone! That’s more than all the SUV’s in the US! Kind of makes you want to boycott McDonald’s, doesn’t it?
What do you all think?
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5 responses
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
17 Feb 08
Make me wonder who these "average" American are LOL There are 3 of us in this house and we might eat one hamburger a week and thats not from a fast food place. Thinking of all the people I work with, I know for sure that one of them eats out daily at places like McDonald's, the rest don't. We have 10 people where I work.
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
17 Feb 08
Oh, that should be a month, not a week LOL We don't eat a lot of read meat at all.
@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
8 Jul 08
That is really an angle to global warming that I didnt know-this makes American double culprits-look, their leader backed by industrialist are going slow on Kioto Protocol, may be Barack will change all that including legilating on how much chees Americans should eat! LOL!
On a serious note, I added you as a friend and I want to know more about some of your writing sites-please message me with the link crip..! Thanks for this post!
@amitavroy (4819)
• India
17 Feb 08
well i hope all people can understand this thing. we should have a balance in everythinga nd right now we are just destroying the balance and that can cost us a lot.
@killachris777 (19)
• United States
7 Jul 08
make the cows stop farting.
and i love cheeseburgers but i wont eat 3 a week and i will never boycott mcdonalds because they're not the only place that makes burgers
