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Originally Posted by willravel
We need to reclaim the CO2 from the air, and fast. Cutting emissions isn't enough, really. We need to actually take the CO2 out of the air, and convert it to electricity.
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Just a general comment about the whole CO2 and greenhouse gas problem... Is everyone aware of the impact the world meat industry has in regards to greenhouse emmissions and environmental degredation? The meat industry generates more CO2 than all combined motorized transportion in the entire world (just under 20% of all sources according to the UN's FAO - check website for stats). This doesn't account for huge quantities of more dangerous greenhouse gases like methane, and numerous other nasty details that the meat industry unleashes on the environment.
Now I like a good steak any day of the week, but why is the single largest culprit in greenhouse emmissions never mentioned by environmental groups? Well there's PETA (check out their website too). Al Gore doesn't seem to mention this one in his "documentary" and tasty meat products were plentiful at Live Earth.
Faster than buying a Prius and installing flourescent lighting (which both depend on horribly toxic materials and processes to produce), going vegetarian would be the quickest single measure in the world that would reduce CO2 and greenhouse gasses immediately. ...however, the economic impact would be devasting.
At some time in history, I believe "Greenland" was named that for a reason.