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Monday, November 11, 2019

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



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.