Following up to Tim C. wrote:
>>Unless your 4 people live on gasoline or some other fossil fuel, they don't
>>emit any CO2 at all. Food comes from plants, or from animals from plants,
>>which pull their carbon from the AIR. There is no carbon added to the
>>environment.
>>
>>This is really basic stuff.
>
>But indirectly they do. Very few foodstuffs available in the west are
>produced without the use of artificial or imported fertilisers or oil
>for farm machines or transport to the shop and then home again.
but thats going to be some % of total and would therefore wreck the
claim that driving a big 4x4 is more environmental than going for a
jog. You somehow knew it was going to be bolox without even thinking!
Bush and Jeremy Clarkeson would have been shouting it from the
rooftops for a start.
--
Mike
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