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Did you know that stomach gas from farm animals makes one fourth of all the world's greenhouse gasses? All farm animals eat grass, hay, and seed and digesting all these plants creates a gas in animal stomachs called Methane. Cattle, sheep, chickens, pigs, and horses all "fart" Methane gas - but not Kangaroos!
Anyone who has spent time on a farm knows that farm animals do a lot of farting. Methane gas is a greenhouse gas and one of the greatest threats to global warming and climate change.
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Kangaroos may hold the key to this greenhouse gas problem. Scientists like Dr. Athol Klieve in Queensland, Australia have found that kangaroos have a special bacteria in their stomach that does not produce methane during digestion. Scientists in Australia are working very hard to find some way to introduce this bacteria as microbes added to feed grain for other farm animals. They hope that by getting this bacteria into the stomachs of sheep, pigs and cows, that this will help reduce greenhouse gases. But the scientists say nothing about what Kangaroo farts smell like.
Recently, scientists working to reduce greenhouse gasses from farm animals have discovered that adding curry and koriander to the diet can reduce animals methane gas production by as much as 40%. But getting cows, pigs and sheep to eat curried feed may not be so easy. Even if this could be done, it may prove an impossible solution because it would also change the taste of the meats we all enjoy eating. An easier solution would be for all of us to eat less meat and more fruit and vegetables.
If we all cut down our meat-eating just a bit, it would make us more healthy and it would help slow down global warming and climate change. It is estimated that if the people in North America alone could reduce their intake of meat by only 10%, it would considerably reduce health care costs due to obesity, heart disease, Diabetes, and colon cancer. It would also free-up enough agricultural land to grow food enough to feed 1 billion people! Food for thought and just one more way to reduce Global Warming.
Climate change will not go away just because some do not believe it is happening. NASA photographs clearly show the northern ice cap is melting at an alarming rate. This not only increases the amount of fresh water in the oceans and changes currents, but is also causing a long list of other environmental problems.
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The US uses 1/4 of the world's oil and has only 3% of the world's oil reserves but it is way behind in what could be the next great global industrial boom. "Renewable energy technologies are going to make up the next great global industry. They will be bigger than “I.T.” quotes a 2007 study in the USA conducted by the Renewable Energy Policy Project and released by the Blue-Green Alliance (a team project of the United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club) reported that getting just 20 percent of U.S. electricity from wind and solar power by 2020 would create 820,000 new high-wage jobs at more than 42,000 companies across the USA. The country that creates the most E.T. companies will enjoy more economic and political power, and have rising standards of living. Why is this not happening? Because some one is making a great deal of money keeping things as they are.
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