Poll results; Global warming.

What in your opinion is the most important domestic tool against global warming?


Vegetarianism/veganism 2 (33%)

Re-cycling 1 (16%)

Giving up a car 5 (83%)

Only buying local goods/food 3 (50%)

Re-using plastic bags 1 (16%)

Using domestic green power 1 (16%)

Living off grid 1 (16%)

Not having children 0 (0%)


Another multiple answers poll.
Some interesting answers...certainly NOT what the councils push for you to DO YOUR BIT!

A massive 83% cited giving up a car as the most important tool you have against global warming. I'm way up there with that. Bikes are a win win situation for the car less.
Lower carbon impact in production and shipping, zero emissions when used, easy and cheap to repair yourself and barring a write off, it should last you forever. Compare that with the cars cardon footprint.....up to 50% of a cars impact is from factory to showroom alone. And lets be honest..if you get 5 years out of a car you a a very lucky person.

Hmm...and WHY do the government not send you fliers and pay for advertising for that little gem ?? ;)

50% of you are in favour of buying local goods/food.
This works along the same lines as the carless lifestyle, and obviously complements it. Its a no brainer. Do you buy your veg from a farm shop, where the produce may have travelled less than a mile? Or do you drive into town and buy veg from another country?

No one suggest you can't enjoy the odd banana in winter, but by and large buy local, buy in season. If a food product is in season and local you are getting maximum health benefits for yourself and the planet.

33% are in favour of a vegetarian diet to fight global warming.
Factory farmed animals churn out more emissions than cars globally.
Between the forests that are cleared to grow crops to feed them (crops that could be feeding people), the effluent pumped out of the factories into our waterways, even the fact that factory farmed beef are fed grain instead of grass (un-natural for a cows stomach) causing the cow to ..(ehem)fart, a huge factory corral of beef cows with bad tummies is kicking out the same amount of bad gasses as a dirty factory, and you have a valid reason to stop or at least cut down on your meat. (See also buying local again).

Re-cycling,Re-using plastic bags,Using domestic green power and Living off grid came in joint with 16%.
I find it gratifying that you people realise the tiny impact these heavily subsidised actions have on global warming. When all have e the 3 R's drummed into us and yes the re-using of things is something I do alot, but where does all our recycling go?? Not long ago in the UK there was a public outcry as ships of recycling were sent to China to be processed....dumping OUR rubbish on someone elses doorstep. There are also tales of whole recycling lorries simply emptying their contense into the rubbish dumps.
I for one would like some more information about how, where and what our recycling is doing.
Using domestic green power is an admirable thought but for many people unpractical. Far better to have a central power plant and deliver our electric that way.
And off grid living??

The holy grail??

Again, a dream, and one lived by many people, but not something that can be taken up on such a scale as to make an impact.

The genie is out of the bottle.
We like electricity and white goods, we like to turn on lights and wash our clothes without a stream and a rock.

Far better and very feasible, to find ways to keep it going without leaving a footprint on the earth.