Sunday, August 19, 2007
STOP BUYING STUFF
Sydney Morning Herald environment reporter Wendy Frew reveals the hideous cause of global warming. Apparently it’s everything:
New data shows the electricity and water used to produce everything people buy - from food and clothing to CDs and electrical appliances - far outweighs any efforts to save water and power in the home, according to an extensive analysis by the Australian Conservation Foundation and the University of Sydney ...
Shopping habits represent such a large part of greenhouse gas emissions that even if every household switched to renewable energy and stopped driving cars tomorrow, total household emissions would fall by less than 20 per cent, the study found.
So the SMH will stop running ads, one assumes. Stand back as Wendy announces:
Over-consumption is, literally, costing the earth.
Whoa!
More water is used to produce a single serve of beef than the average Sydneysider uses during an entire week of showers. Every $100 spent on clothing generates 70 kilograms of greenhouse pollution.
So they really do want us to live in caves. Brace yourself for super genius enviro-insight:
One of the main findings of the report, Consuming Australia, is that the more people earn, the more they spend ...
It took an extensive analysis to work this out. These people are demented.