I don’t buy the whole argument behind “manmade climate change”. I’m one of those who argue that the planet is constantly going through periods of extreme warming, (Permian-Triassic), and extreme cooling, (Cryogenian), that last for millennia, and I hate the fact that there is a segment of society that goes absolutely insane when they think that the global temperature has a risk of rising two degrees in the next century and it was all caused by their neighbor’s Ford F-350.
We’re called the “Big Picture” people, and we’re not very well liked.
That being said, the days between December 7th and the 18th should be held in disdain by carnivores everywhere. Once more, the United Nations is raising their “Better-Than-You” banner and holding a Climate Change Conference in a vain attempt to forge a pact between nations to reduce greenhouse gases. And the biggest target they’re taking aim at this year just so happens to be your dinner.
Lord Stern of Brentford, former chief economist at the World Bank and current crazy person, has gone on the record stating, “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.” To his credit, these are all valid points based on perspective; however, he then goes on to hint, “I am not sure that people fully understand what we are talking about or the kinds of changes that will be necessary.”
And what kind of changes are those, you may be wondering? Why, a passage of the aforementioned pact between nations. During the Climate Change Conference, the pact will attempt to be passed to help “nudge” people toward eating a more earth-friendly diet. And how do they plan on doing this? Simply put, “a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.”
Lord Stern isn’t looking for a simple price hike, either. He’s looking to indoctrinate an entire generation. “I think it’s important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating,” he says. “I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.”
A poll at the Times Online showed nearly two thirds of people would not give up meat, even if it meant saving the planet.
That’s…that’s just ludicrous. Don’t they know that the extremes that Leary said people would go to for cigarettes would only be triply extremified for meats? And a more earth-friendly diet? What happens when we stop eating meat? We stop killing meat. And then? Meat procreates. Next? Animals reclaim the world. Though with the way people in general act, that’s not far off.
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!
I will kill somebody for my meat.. hell I’ll just kill somebody and eat them. There’s no point to this, it’s just going to turn meat into a very profitable black market item, such is anything you try to ban or hike prices on. Plus at the end of the day we’re solving the problem by eating meat. We kill the cows that produce methane and we eat a little less of the plants that produce oxygen and give shade and such. Win win.
This reminds me of a beautiful irc quote:
SaxxonPike: mmm, steak
SLASHSPIT: you guys don’t respect the environment, do you?
SaxxonPike: I respect a good dinner
SLASHSPIT: how can you eat that? cows are like one of the largest contributors of methane gas
SLASHSPIT: which contributes to global warming and stuff
SLASHSPIT: so what are you all doing for the environment?
SaxxonPike: I eat the fucking cows
Oh, and look at me, I’m posting! *flails arms*
And the community grows! Sort of. We’re almost back to DA status.
I grabbed Syrenia after we had a three email conversation.
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE indeed.
Well unless she has told all of her friends, you’ve failed, Kris. You’re only supposed to tell people that will tell other people, and nto keep things selfishly to themselves. <_<
Nah.
I’ve told all my Zelda Infinite friends by putting a link in my sig.
But I doubt any of them will look at it or click it. Some are kind of elitist in a bad way. Too cool for school; you know the type.
In case any of them -do- look and read this: I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU! …or -am- I? The world may never know.
(The above was Syrenia on sugar. So sorry!)