Word: carbone
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...world faces the existential threat of climate change, the former Vice President has embarked on an admirable quest to reform carbon-heavy habits. Yet despite his talk of making inconvenient choices, Mr. Gore continues to indulge in one of the most environmentally irrational habits of all: eating meat...
...Moreover, factory farms emit large quantities of methane and nitrous oxide—pollutants with, respectively, 23 times and 296 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. That’s why the organizers of the Live Earth concerts—at which Mr. Gore spoke—wrote in the Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook that “refusing meat” is “the single most effective thing you can do to reduce global warming...
...might seem odd that Al Gore’s bacon and eggs breakfast could have more impact on the environment than his choice to avoid SUV’s. But meat production’s inherent inefficiency creates its large carbon footprint...
...realities of the food system do not allow for that at this point.” But Martin said HUDS will continue to take active steps in that direction. “We do continue to try and find new sources for local food and improve our general [carbon] footprint in creative ways” she said. —Staff writer Natasha S. Whitney can be reached at nwhitney@fas.harvard.edu...
...pushed him on the need for universal health insurance and a more aggressive global-warming policy - neither of which he supported. He has stayed with his less-than-universal health-care plan, and I still find it less than convincing. And his cap-and-trade program to control carbon emissions has taken a backseat to the economic crisis - although Obama insisted that he still favored such a plan, so long as consumers are cushioned with rebates when energy prices rise...