Quite possibly true - very possibly true - but the most important words in that article are, of course, Through a study by CNW Marketing". I think I'd really want a second source for that before regarding it as definitive.
One or two points . . . shipping's a very efficient form on transport. The carbon footprint of New Zealand lamb is less than that of British lamb even after the shipping costs. It doesn't necessarily inflate the impact all that much. Also, the measure of energy use is Joules, not dollars - the dollar costs they cite at the end have little direct relationship to energy use or carbon emissions.
Linky? Using their search I don't see any articles touching on the total environmental debt. There's one about fuel consumption that seems to roughly confirm the figures given in the linked article, but I couldn't read the comments to see if there was any discussion about manufacturing because the Flash ads killed Firefox :)
The report: http://cnwmr.com/nss-folder/automotiveenergy/
I particularly like the 50+ appendices, which consist of cartoons, newspaper articles (some of them with no connection to cars), and the lyrics of a song.
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Date: 2007-03-23 11:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-23 11:01 am (UTC)One or two points . . . shipping's a very efficient form on transport. The carbon footprint of New Zealand lamb is less than that of British lamb even after the shipping costs. It doesn't necessarily inflate the impact all that much. Also, the measure of energy use is Joules, not dollars - the dollar costs they cite at the end have little direct relationship to energy use or carbon emissions.
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Date: 2007-03-23 11:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-23 11:38 am (UTC)I particularly like the 50+ appendices, which consist of cartoons, newspaper articles (some of them with no connection to cars), and the lyrics of a song.
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Date: 2007-03-23 11:50 am (UTC)