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Posted by Bill S on February 11, 2008 at 1:36:00 pm EST
In reply to building a campfire - sometimes it's just not right posted by bheiser1 on September 11, 2007 at 7:08:52 pm EDT

We all know that just by existing, we have an impact. Here is the carbon (and other greenhouse) impact of that cheeseburger you are having for lunch (I don't eat red meat, so I don't eat cheeseburgers). http://openthefuture.com/cheeseburger_CF.html

The bottom line is that a single cheeseburger is 3.6 to 6.1 kilograms of CO2 equivalent, depending on the transportation mode. Given the burger industry's estimate of 3 burgers per week per person in the US, that is something like 196 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent per year. Another way to put it is that the CO2 equivalent of all those cheeseburgers is equivalent to 6.5 to 19.6 million SUVs (there are 16 million SUVs on the road in the US currently).

This weekend, at the annual Bear Valley Telemark Festival, part of the evening entertainment was a group of 5 films from a local environmentally-oriented film festival. One of these was of the person who did the research to gather the data in the above website. And, yes, part of the fee charged for the Telefest was to purchase carbon offsets. And yes, the banquet meal on Saturday night was purely vegetarian, as has been traditional for the 12 years the festival has been held - no bovine methane contributions (another of the films was about the beef industry - methane from the cattle in the beef industry is incredibly huge as a greenhouse gas).

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