# Earth day '08

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**Created:** [April 22, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/earth-day-08/47213 "2008-04-22T07:11:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/earth-day-08/47213/65 "2008-04-23T10:25:58Z")

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> [@Fry](#):
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> Someone at Praxair gave a presentation on global warming and one of his suggestions was to eat less meat. That’s right. Eat less meat. Because that will have an impact.
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> The idea was that forests are cleared for cow pastures, so eating less meat would mean fewer cattle and thus fewer trees cut down. I guess it’s logical, I just think he can’t see the real magnitude of the problem because the tree he’s hugging is in the way.

Less cow pastures, more fossil fuel-burning power plants. :picard:

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