The various ways to save carbon dioxide emissions are summarised neatly in this chart:
The most important measure that any of us can take is to limit our family size to two children. What did the global media choose as the best way to reduce emissions? Veganism. The world is indeed insane.
The next target the media has chosen is air travel. Air travel is more efficient than travelling by car and similar in efficiency to travelling by bus.
(These figures are correct for airplanes but assume that the average car does 50 mpg - I wish it did!).
Apart from efficiency air travel is problematical because it creates high altitude contrails that have a warming effect (the light blue bars in the chart above). The removal of these contrails would make air travel far more green. Most people use planes infrequently for long journeys and air travel is really a problem because airplanes travel long distances. Replacing them will be difficult, if not impossible.
Farmers are being targeted as part of the vegan craze. Largely because vegans have always opposed livestock farming. The solution is to count all the trees and hedges on farms as part of their CO2 allowance and not to allow profligate city dwellers to feel warm and cuddly by buying trees as "offsets" then demanding that farmers do not include these in the agricultural CO2 budget. How would vegans feel if their small savings on the CO2 budget were all allocated to the airline industry?
There is only one sensible way forward to save the environment: we must have fewer children and aim for a reduced global population in the long term. Veganism in particular is a massive and knowing diversion from reality.
The most important measure that any of us can take is to limit our family size to two children. What did the global media choose as the best way to reduce emissions? Veganism. The world is indeed insane.
The next target the media has chosen is air travel. Air travel is more efficient than travelling by car and similar in efficiency to travelling by bus.
(These figures are correct for airplanes but assume that the average car does 50 mpg - I wish it did!).
Apart from efficiency air travel is problematical because it creates high altitude contrails that have a warming effect (the light blue bars in the chart above). The removal of these contrails would make air travel far more green. Most people use planes infrequently for long journeys and air travel is really a problem because airplanes travel long distances. Replacing them will be difficult, if not impossible.
Farmers are being targeted as part of the vegan craze. Largely because vegans have always opposed livestock farming. The solution is to count all the trees and hedges on farms as part of their CO2 allowance and not to allow profligate city dwellers to feel warm and cuddly by buying trees as "offsets" then demanding that farmers do not include these in the agricultural CO2 budget. How would vegans feel if their small savings on the CO2 budget were all allocated to the airline industry?
There is only one sensible way forward to save the environment: we must have fewer children and aim for a reduced global population in the long term. Veganism in particular is a massive and knowing diversion from reality.
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