Help The Environment -- Avoid "Eco-Friendly" Products

THE  FEELINGS:

People usually have 

good feelings about 

the "eco-friendly"

products they buy, 

so they don't mind

paying more, 

often a lot more 

than conventional 

products.

Unilever says that 

one third of consumers 

buy based on a brand's 

perceived environmental 

impact. 

And one fifth of consumers 

favor "green messaging".

Eco-friendly products

allow people to pat 

themselves on the back, 

while paying more, 

... but they often cause 

more CO2 emissions.

Now let's move 

away from leftist

virtue signaling,

into scientific

reality:

THE  FACTS:

Organic farming

for beans, potatoes 

and oats creates more 

CO2 emissions than

conventional farming

"Trying to get all of Britain 

eating organic would create 

an environmental catastrophe," 

said researchers at 

Cranfield University. 

Organic farming requires 

more land than conventional 

farming, because it yields

a smaller harvest per crop. 

A Cranfield University report 

shows if England and Wales

switched to organic farming, 

they would need five times

as much land for agriculture. 

Note that 

organic farming 

was used for
just 1.4% 

of total world 

farmland in 2017.

Solar panel 
manufacturing 

requires carcinogenic 

heavy metal cadmium, 

and requires 
billions of liters 

of water 
to manufacture,

and cool.

Solar panel disposal 

is an open issue

 see article posted earlier today:
https://elonionbloggle.blogspot.com/2019/11/solar-panel-disposal-they-contain-toxic.html

More energy 
is consumed 

in the production 
of electric cars, 
than gas cars. 

The lifetime 

carbon footprints 

of both vehicles 

are similar,

depending on 
the electricity 

sources used 

to charge the 
EVs batteries. 

Electric vehicle 

(EV) batteries

are oaded with

toxic chemicals, 

such as lithium, 

copper and cobalt. 

Mining those chemicals

hurts the environment,

and the miners, often

in Africa.

Battery disposal 

is an open issue,

Biomass and biofuels 

generate more 
carbon emissions
 than fossil fuels, 

to create
the same amount 

of energy. 

"Biomass" can include 

anything from timber waste 

to garbage, and can cause

real air pollution.

Paper bags 

generate more air 

and water pollution 

than plastic bags, 
and require
more energy 

to recycle. 

They take up 
more space 

in landfills, 
and require 

more fuel to ship.