NOT an April fool’s joke.~ctm
By Irina Slav – Apr 01, 2019, 10:00 AM CDT
A study has suggested Caucasian Americans’ diet is contributing significantly more to climate change than the diets of other demographic groups in the country. The study, published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, said white people contributed the most to greenhouse gas emissions, at 680 kg of carbon dioxide equivalent annually, but added that the Black demographic had the highest contribution to land impacts related to food.
The study set out to “fill in the gaps” in research about how various dietary habits affect the environment along the whole supply chain from land resources to water and energy. It focused on three demographic groups—White, non-Hispanic Back, and Latino—since they represent 92.4 percent of the U.S. population and looked into their eating habits to glean some insight into the relation between these habits and what it calls the food-energy-water nexis.
The study’s authors note that the White population, as portion of the U.S. total, was 61.3 percent, with Latinx—a term the authors of the study call intersectional and non-binary to reflect the latest term trends in social sciences—accounting for 17.8 percent and the Black population accounting for 13.3 percent.
In light of these proportions it’s hardly surprising the White population’s diet was a greater contributor to climate change in terms of greenhouse emissions. However, the study also suggested that the White group’s diet was a greater contributor to climate change because of its higher consumption of what the authors call “environmentally intense” food items.\
Read the full oilprice.com article here.
HT/RonPE
You baskets, i’m glad i identify as Jamaican mon.
That picture definitely gives me an idea for dinner tonight
Got to love racism in all it’s forms… not. Leftists are some of the most bigoted people. A place for everyone and everyone in their place.
Don’t forget the Nazis were the National “Socialist” Workers PArty of Germany!
They were socialists… that puts them on the left, regardless of the communist’s propaganda.
If a Government’s goal is not to preserve the rights of the individual despite the majority’s opinion, then it is a (fill in the blank)-ist Government.
Your world is coming to an end and it is all your paren…ahh white peoples fault. So vote for the candidate who opposes white peop…aahhh we mean global warm…aaahhhh we mean climate change.
Nothing proves that CAGW is a left wing socio/political movement more than blaming white people for climate change. You are spot on SMC it is bigoted and extremely insulting to minorities.
Over-educated liberals expose their true belief that minorities are naturally stupid, much like children and will believe any nonsensical thing they are told as long as the left makes them out to be the victims. Leftists have re-purporsed their bed sheets and pointy hats into lab coats.
Always have been. They’re literally so bigoted, their solutions to ‘racism’ is racism.
Shifting their discrimination to PC-approved targets, of course.
MLK Jr. had a Dream … which the identity politicians have trampled underfoot and torn to pieces. Because the Left wants a race WAR to topple capitalism … they aren’t the least bit interested in Little black girls and boys holding hands playing nicely in the yard. Hint: the white folk I know, admittedly at the top of the education and economic heap, eat healthier (including meat) than any other racial identity group. Yeah, this “study” is pure racism. Pure racial division to spur Socialist totalitarianism.
Call me sheltered if you want, but I don’t recall ever seeing a Latino, Native American, or a African-descended Black person being force fed a Big Mac or 64-oz Big Gulp.
The Wall-E Life:
“Time for Lunch!! In a cup!”
No … but I’ve seen gobs of em voluntarily gobbling them down. Tree fiddy is a ‘thing’ for a reason …
I’m glad that this post was clearly identified as not being an April Fool’s Day Joke. It read exactly like a Joke. Next, we will be reading of protests about KFC or McDonald’s causing massive World-wide sea level rises by increasing White Caucasian American flatulence.
In case you missed it here is an intentional April 1 post for Climate Fools.
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2019/04/01/at-last-a-climate-policy-with-teeth/
Are you sure that’s not a genuine Chris Grayling project?
Most jokes aren’t funny if you take them literally.
Yes, I agree.
White people bad.
Bad, bad, bad. Bad white people…and the orange guy too.
See the bad white people create useless virtue signaling studies that waste time, money, oxygen, and the very wasted energy used to produce them.
White people should be more like … um… er… um… Well, frankly, In lieu of the racial guilt trip I’ve just been put on, I’ve decided to racially identify as Asgardian. I use tesseracts connected to alternate universes to conjure my food from then use MAGIC fire that produces no carbon dioxide to cook it with which shunts any waste heat into a nearby blackhole and leaves my kitchen smelling minty fresh. I also have no guilt since I eschew dastardly fossil fuels and use a magic hammer to fly to work with further showing everyone else how superior I am to their petty wasteful evil white people ways.
/end sarc… Oh my goodness, It really IS easy being green, you just make stuff up!
Seriously though, as a simple thought experiment, please change the word ‘white’ in the above article to ANY other skin color and tell me if it would still pass muster on facebook, twitter, buzzfeed, etc.
As a cis-gendered white somewhat conservative male, it’s all my fault. I accept the blame.
Your married aren’t you, i can tell.
”As a cis-gendered white somewhat conservative male, it’s all my fault. I accept the blame.”
Trump’s fault
I smoke.
Does that make “cig-gendered”?
I’m not WHITE.
– Or at least, I’m not white anymore; I’m BLACK now. After all, if I can self-proclaim to be another gender ( – and save a fortune on car insurance by doing so – ), who says I can’t claim to be another Race?
If it’s good enough for Elizabeth Warren, it’s good enough for me. Down with Whitey! =D…………
Well you CAN self-identify as any race you please.
https://www.theblaze.com/white-couple-who-identify?utm_content=buffer65fe8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=glennbeck&fbclid=IwAR1yTEl9b48oDrxHcKmW3JQEqumGuyyV5d7CaL4Aj246oxY9-Yb423AXrMs
Y. Knott April 2, 2019 at 5:18 am
Race doesn’t matter if you’re a Morlock
michael
Oh my goodness, It really IS easy being green, you just make stuff up!
Indeed! It’s as easy as flunking the SAT
and getting your rich parents to bribe someone else to take the SAT for you, apparently
And why is beef harmful to the environment? Assuming they judge CO2 to be environmentally damaging, cows, like all living things, are inherently carbon neutral. It’s how the carbon cycle works!
And why is beef harmful to the environment
Apparent Cow Flatulence is right up then in the list of environmentally harmful things, at least according to the Green New Deal.
The Oil Price article neglects the gist of this paper of identity-politics-ridden gibberish as in the euphemistically phrased: “… we also propose using government programming to encourage environmentally friendly food purchasing behavior… “.
Behind all CC™ twaddle lurks the statist-totalitarian urge to control every aspect of people’s lives — other people’s lives.
Whenever someone’s solution to their hysterical fears involves taking absolute control over my money and my life because they know better, I do know better, and then tell them to *bleep* off.
Ah…
It makes sense now!
Latinx. Is that inspired by Malcolm X? Or Chairman Mao.
If it’s Latinx, then shouldn’t it be Blax? Or Cauxcasian?
How dare you be so … so … cisgendered! Sheesh … you must be a white MAN too!
/easy sarc. of a grade schooler
Nah . Latex !
It can stretch to cover most anything …. 😉
Mao.
Another attempt at laying guilt upon white people… Not that there is any significant difference in people, habits, housing, living conditions and diet.
Odds are these falsehood fabricators used imaginary stereotypes for determining diet.
Anyway, we thank you confirmation biased fakers! We are glad to help rescue Earth from carbon dioxide plant starvation and the subsequent Earth greening.
Life on Earth was severely challenge during the last glaciation as the CO2 concentration fell to below 200ppm.
The planet is more likely than not in the next few thousand years to descend into another glaciation period probably deeper than previously and the higher the concentration of atmospheric CO2 the better.
Why ?.
”and the higher the concentration of atmospheric CO2 the better.”
How many glaciations have there been with less than 2000 ppmv ?.
On checking the Wiley Online Library link provided, I find that the racist, or (anti)”Progressive”, “scientific” paper referenced is seemingly no April Fools joke, or at least not a *deliberate* effort at making a joke article.
Also in the category of nonsensical or misconceived info, in Canada we now have article links by something called “Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission” (or “ecofiscal.ca”), now making the rounds on Facebook’s Newsfeed. This Commission is, I take it, the Canadian Federal government using our own money to advertise the wonderful benefits of putting on a so called “carbon tax” starting yesterday, April 1st, 2019, on all fuels as such, with extra tax increases scheduled annually from now on.
The most nonsensical aspect of this whole “tax the carbon” (really, an effort to restrict carbon dioxide, CO2) strategy is how CO2 gets persistently referred to as pollution, or as a “pollutant’, with anyone who burns any fuel being therefore a polluter? Granted that too much of anything can kill a person, that still doesn’t mean that CO2 is toxic, or a “pollutant”.
Consider, for example, the recommended medical/first aid practice that *never* seems to come up in CO2 discussions, although I would think that it *should* be mentioned. This practice, rescue breathing, also called “artificial respiration’, is a highly recommended first aid procedure for rescuing anyone whose own breathing has stopped. Now it is very easy to do web searches and come up with a more or less standard estimate that when we breath out, our exhaled breath contains about four percent CO2 by volume (while some estimates seem to say a bit more). At the same time, exhaled breath consistently has something like 16 percent oxygen, so that is still a helpful or breathable amount, and a very good thing for the otherwise non-breathing person that a rescuer is breathing into!
Now the point is that while four percent CO2 is doubtless higher than the recommended amount to have in any closed room as such, it is still not high enough to cause any serious harm to the individual receiving the rescue breathing. In other words, as long as one is assured of “piping in” a goodly amount of oxygen to go with the CO2, that’s really the main consideration — you don’t want to smother for lack of oxygen! Please, everyone notice, four percent by volume is *one hundred times* the concentration of the roughly 400 ppm that we have in the atmosphere right now! That makes CO2 super toxic, right, I mean what a “pollutant”, why, regular tax paying folks like me must somehow be pushed more and more, just so we are forced to cut back on all our conveniences and all our necessities, all to restrict our nasty everyday CO2 pollution?
At some point a person gets really disgusted with all of this. Would it be entirely mean of me for instance, to suggest that every official government person who is prioritizing the evils of CO2 pollution, should therefore replace all the CO2 molecules in their office space, with something simpler and more elegant, and therefore no doubt healthier? How about replacing all the CO2’s in *their* space with nice *CO*’s, say!
I mean, I’m just sayin’, it would solve a lot of problems! There would be no need right away for an expensive federal election then, all the liars would expire permanently if such were done, *and* there would be that much less “carbon” walking around in thoughtless fleshy embodiments, come to think of it?
On the other hand, White Men exterminated millions of buffaloes and thousands years before that, millions of mammoths, so that thanks to our ancestors, we are neutral with respect to Climate Change and we proudly deserve our Big Mac for the Centuries to come.
Next step : exterminate the main contributors to CO2 emission by feeding alarmists with termites.
feeding termites with alarmists sounds better for the environment to me.
Why can’t the authors of this study see past race and accept people of different cultures, religion and colour for what they are: human?
Because the whole point of identity politics is to divide people of different cultures, religions and colours. It’s the modus operandi of the left.
A place for everyone. And everyone in their place.
Here’s how stupid these folks are: they assign the problem as due to 61.3 percent Caucasians, 17.8 percent Latino (not PC, sorry) and 13.3 percent to Blacks. So, blame the Caucasians because they have the biggest number.
But US demographics is 62% Caucasian, 16.9% Latino, and 12.6% Black.
That makes the per capita contributions for those three groups, 0.99, 1.05, and 1.06, respectively. So, it’s the minority group diets that are contributing more than their fair share. PC horrors! 🙂
But PC sociologists aren’t great at critical thinking, especially when there’s a critical theory narrative to exegeticize.
And besides, they’re allowed to be wrong because they’re telling a higher truth. Smaller truths don’t matter. And neither do inconvenient big truths.
The linked demographic is actually not entirely correct, by the way. If you look, notice footnote 1, where the “”White” population is “non-Hispanic.” About a third of US Hispanics descend from the European Spanish, who are Caucasian to the max.
So, the population of the US is actually about 70% Caucasian and 10% Latino. But then, that only makes the dietary case worse for the Sociological narrative. Can’t have that.
Confucius say!
Eating Beef = Cow is killed = less methane emitted = less CAGW,… or what ??
I am proud to contribute the maximum CO2 possible to our CO2 starved atmosphere! All flora benefit and all fauna on the planet, including humans, have enhanced food options as a result. Racists tropes, like those presented in the screed/article above, fail to recognize the factually positive benefits of a CO2 enriched atmosphere. When facts don’t support your baseless allegations, play the race card.
When you thought the Greens could not get more stupid than to blame Co2 for climate change, one of their team has managed to blame white skinned people for the imaginary climate change problem.
We should be grateful it is only white American people to blame.
This is an April fool isn’t it? I know the lead in says not but it must be a spoof.
No caucasians = no “climate change”??? Hmmmm….
Suggested new campaign slogan.
Looking at the Fig 2 in the study, per capita consumption of various food products I saw little difference between the 3 racial groups , except in the case of milk/ dairy products :
Interesting observation.
Since milk mostly comes from cows it seems like these leftist want to deprive all children of the most nutritious and essential food for healthy children.
Surprised that Republicans are not smart enough to mention that these anti cow fools are trying to starve our children and thin the human herd with nutritional deficiency.
Horrible people that they are they want to starve the children and deprive them of essential nutrition to ” save the planet”.
What about all those beans in the Mexican diet?
Another undermining of public confidence in the food we eat with the bonus of working in climate guilt. All we need to remember when these clown studies are put forward is that the profit margin on meat based products is a measly 200-300 per cent while veggie and vegan profit margins start at about 1000 per cent and rise rapidly the dafter the purist version of these self-harning diets the gullible are persuaded to espouse.
“Environmentally intense”, huh? How about those that eat beans, onions, and cruciferous vegetables? No cows needed. Vegans probably manufacture enough methane to make up for the cows they don’t eat.
Methanogen microorganisms are responsible for a large percentage of the amount of methane released into the environment through a large variety of processes that allow them to flourish.
The actual process might happen inside of animals, in soil, or in wetlands, or even in people. NASA classifies “wetlands” as the largest single source. It’s also one of the things greens want to preserve.
The fossil-fuel industry is the second-largest, but is not due to methanogens.
“Enteric fermentation” is listed by NASA as “anthropogenic” since some of it happens inside of people, but a lot of it happens inside of other animals. Some of those are farmed by people. Methane generation by farm animals can be moderated by dietary-changes and additives.
Rice farming accounts for 12%. I suppose vegans are all fine with that.
Even without people on Earth, significant amounts of methane would still be generated.
Even without life on earth, methane would still be generated. It has just been found on mars (I am assuming there are no Martian cows).
Hmmm … sounds like a B Sci-Fi movie.
“The Invasion of the Little Green Cows from Mars!”
So cow farts again? Cow farts are damaging? Goat farts are not? Get real.
Goat farts are just scary. In the desert at night they sound like gunshots!
Guilty as charged. Going for a nice thick delmonico for dinner, medium rare! Buahahaha! Basking in my white privilege!
As if there’s a “white man’s diet” in the United States.
Nothing like popular Left racism on display in the faux science of the Left.
Yeah, well, I don’t give a flying cow fart in space what these wankers say. They like making stuff up, just to get ca$$h. I”m not giving up my ground prime rib burgers or Claussen’s baby dills.
If they want people to eat bugs, they’d better set the example. They haven’t looked in the mirror lately, have they?
but when whitey in aus wants to eat roo meat, which is ecofriendly non hard hooved and doesnt degass as much..the grentards go bonkers! theres millions of the damn things hopping all over starving in the drought killing people in car accidents but we cant touch em?
but its ok for aboriginals to eat them and other rarer species also
Ive had a gutful of antiwhite bias and recent abc show where a notwhite minority craps on a white persons picture is just fine? not racist at all it seems?