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Monday, October 22, 2007 12:00 AM

Earth to PETA

Meat is not the No. 1 cause of global warming. Yet our diet is cooking the planet, and one surprising staple turns down the heat.

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  • Monday, October 22, 2007 07:57 PM

    Re.: Will all you brown people please exit the planet?

    Paperfrog:

    > Chikalada's got it absolutely right - the single underlying > contributory factor to practically all of Planet Earth's

    > problems is there are just too many human beings: we are the

    > equivalent of a cancer on Earth, destroying the organism

    > that sustains us.

    "...I have no idea about the background of the person cited above"

    If you had troubled to read my post, you would have clearly understood that I'm just about as brown as brown can be (the background, location and nationality is 'India'). Reading anything more than superficially, you would also have clearly understood that, in my opinion, 300-odd million overconsuming US citizens (the most obese nation on earth today) are causing more environmental damage than 1000 million 'underconsuming' (because 'underdeveloped') Indians.

    Advice to those who are capable: read more carefully, in particular between the lines, before you make fools of yourselves in public.

    GSC

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