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Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’

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Walking does more than driving to cause global warming, a leading environmentalist has calculated.

Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV rather than leaving it on standby.

“The troubling fact is that taking a lot of exercise and then eating a bit more food is not good for the global atmosphere. Eating less and driving to save energy would be better.”

Mr Goodall, Green Party parliamentary candidate for Oxford West & Abingdon, is the latest serious thinker to turn popular myths about the environment on their head.

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Michael O’Leary, boss of the budget airline Ryanair, has been widely derided after he was reported to have said that global warming could be solved by massacring the world’s cattle.
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15 responses // Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’

  • I'm inclined to call bullshit.
    Varex_Sythe
  • I think the article is misrepresented in this current post.

    At first glance I thought this quack scientist was trying to justify driving cars as a way of saving the environment.

    But the scientist is really attacking the beef and dairy industries. Saying that those industries produce more harmful emissions than your car. Which is true.
    flyingkick
  • OK- WHY IS THERE A PHOTO OF JAMES BOND IN THIS ARTICLE?
    JRM
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  • I think a lot of us have enough fat to burn and could use a good walk.
    shroomfairy
  • Oh...my....god.... Seriously?
    This_Is_Not_My_Name
  • That's totally ridiculous.

    So what should people do? DRIVE there instead? You eat the same amount of food! Then you're doing double damage! Hurrrrrrrr.

    The solution is to stop using big rigs not to stop walking.

    Then again, what would you expect from The Times?

    Fucking Rupert Murdoch.
    Saladin
  • It's actually not a terrible article...

    The problem is, it's mislabeled. At least this way it's gonna get some hits...
    Ayahuasca2012
  • The real issue here is that EVERYTHING is oil based in America. Everything you pick up in a grocery store was grown/produced using considerable amounts of oil. It is just another argument stating that America(and the world) is far too dependent on oil.
    boopscoop
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  • This is the dumbest thing I've ever read. Just because you exersize or walk more doesn't mean you're going to eat or drink more. People eat just as much when they drive places as when they walk.
    revroz
  • i feel no need to fill my face after a brisk walk to a shop or two. what the heck!? in fact, I enjoy walking around town on an empty stomach!
    samonster34
  • that is the most far-fetched crap i have ever heard.
    huffamoose2k
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  • The 'scientist' forgot that most people have enough spare calories to go the shops without having to eat an extra kilo of steak and fart an extra litre of methane.
    Number1BadBoy

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