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tenderfoot

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21. Thoughts? This is flame bait.

Reply to DanieRains (Original post)

Thu Jan 2, 2020, 12:25 PM

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Coal Beef Or Flying - What Is Worse For The Planet? [View all] DanieRains Jan 2020 OP

Those three are even close to the top of the list. Binkie The Clown Jan 2020 #1

We Spend Trillions On War But Pennies On The Environment DanieRains Jan 2020 #2

And yet . . . MousePlayingDaffodil Jan 2020 #5

Post removed Post removed Jan 2020 #10

Hey, that's SUPER helpful [roll eyes] NT Happy Hoosier Jan 2020 #30

Can't we get rid of those three to begin with? abqtommy Jan 2020 #3

Do you really want to ban air travel? Do you want to really try to comradebillyboy Jan 2020 #7

To me it all comes down to how serious we want to get to minimize this global warming. abqtommy Jan 2020 #12

Eliminating air travel is not realistic. Happy Hoosier Jan 2020 #32

What if they want to eat their neighbors? ... marble falls Jan 2020 #17

What's coal beef? A type of black angus? NT Ilsa Jan 2020 #4

Maybe beef that is grown only in coal country. Full of heavy metals. Yum, yum. nt Blue_true Jan 2020 #9

"Coal Beef Or Flying" is the newest band all the kids are following on the Tweeter Bonx Jan 2020 #11

Coal is going away because it's obsolete. Air travel is certainly not comradebillyboy Jan 2020 #6

That is narrow thinking, lots of ways to drastically reduce consumption and change behavior cally Jan 2020 #18

Great argument. Beakybird Jan 2020 #29

What does "coal beef" taste like, sounds nasty? nt Blue_true Jan 2020 #8

I wonder if it is like the charcoal ice cream or bread Bettie Jan 2020 #15

I don't think I want to find out. Looks like someone just forgot a comma in the case of the Blue_true Jan 2020 #38

I was thinking like blackened red snapper, when this first popped up Baclava Jan 2020 #25

My guess. Blue_true Jan 2020 #39

Like Rattlesnake whistler162 Jan 2020 #40

So, no flying to Seattle for burger cookout? brooklynite Jan 2020 #13

Sure ProfessorGAC Jan 2020 #24

Coal IS part of the planet fescuerescue Jan 2020 #14

The question is obviously not about the *existence* of coal... Silent3 Jan 2020 #19

coal as fuel, cows as beef 0rganism Jan 2020 #26

I believe that making concrete is worse than any on that list when all the factors are considered pecosbob Jan 2020 #16

Beef StarryNite Jan 2020 #20

Thoughts? This is flame bait. tenderfoot Jan 2020 #21

It's not a contest. (n/t) Iggo Jan 2020 #22

Calculate the Carbon Footprint of each maxsolomon Jan 2020 #23

That is one of those questions, Newest Reality Jan 2020 #27

Catastrophic depletion of comma reserves. Codeine Jan 2020 #28

I'm surprised by so many flippant and uninformed comments here. Beakybird Jan 2020 #31

With all due respect... Happy Hoosier Jan 2020 #33

true Locrian Jan 2020 #37

Or. Blue_true Jan 2020 #41

The problem is the root cause of the 3. roamer65 Jan 2020 #34

The carbon footprint of technology. GemDigger Jan 2020 #35

What the heck is "Coal Beef"? marybourg Jan 2020 #36

Something that a comma would solve. Blue_true Jan 2020 #42

In my case, when I drop the steak onto the briquettes. miyazaki Jan 2020 #43