You (And other problems)
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Yep, you read correctly: you are the problem. We’ll admit it wholeheartedly: so are we. We’re all the problem. Our trips to the grocery store, our commutes to and from work, or our personal favorite, driving to the gym (get over yourself, really), these are all reasons why our air quality sucks.
In fact, pretty much everything we do sucks. We spew carbon with any type of movement other than walking or riding a bike (which, actually, produced some carbon during manufacture). Even taking a bus to school has an impact (if you’ve ever been caught behind one of the black smoke-belching beasts, you’re well aware of this).
And it’s not just the stuff we do directly that sucks. What we do indirectly actually blows, as well. That burger you had for lunch? Before it landed on your plate, that cow was farting up a storm on a pasture somewhere. We’re not talking a “poot poot” here and a “poot poot” there; Bessie was actually ripping about 200-400 quarts of farts every single day.
A little fart seems pretty benign, right? Maybe even funny? Too bad how there are 97 million Bessies in America, each farting 200-400 quarts a day. Know how much methane that puts in the air in total? Somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 billion pounds every year.
Here’s a formula to help you remember how terrible you are to earth: Burger=methane=greenhouse gas=global warming=melting ice caps=rising sea levels=America is the next Atlantis.
See what we just did there? We pointed out why you’re contributing to global warming though everything you do (albeit, with hyperbole). Which is why you should help where you can. If we had less tact, we might use this occasion to insert a quip about why YaTrips can help you resolve the karma you incurred from your steak dinner. But we won’t. Because we’re classy. Just like you. And classy people use YaTrips.
