Comments on: Cut Your Carbon Footprint – Don’t Wear Leather http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/10/09/cut-your-carbon-footprint-don%e2%80%99t-wear-leather/ Green & Sustainable Business Ventures: For Entrepreneurs & Investors Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:59:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michale Hutton http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/10/09/cut-your-carbon-footprint-don%e2%80%99t-wear-leather/comment-page-1/#comment-166218 Michale Hutton Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:03:46 +0000 http://ecopreneurist.com/?p=740#comment-166218 So Vinyl, made from fossil fuels using fossil fuel energy is going to have a smaller carbon footprint than leather, made from cows which eat grass??? Every carbon atom in a cow comes from grass, which sucks in carbon out of the atmosphere, which regrows. A cows carbon footprint is by definition zero. If you want sustainable carbon-neutral products eat meat, use timber, wear leather. Plant trees, harvest them and plant again. - There's your carbon sink. You can't just analyse footprints, you have to compare footprints. It's not as simple as how much carbon, it has to take into account where that carbon came from. Sensationalism meets sentimentalism, where's the science? Michael Hutton, Tamworth NSW Australia So Vinyl, made from fossil fuels using fossil fuel energy is going to have a smaller carbon footprint than leather, made from cows which eat grass??? Every carbon atom in a cow comes from grass, which sucks in carbon out of the atmosphere, which regrows. A cows carbon footprint is by definition zero.
If you want sustainable carbon-neutral products eat meat, use timber, wear leather. Plant trees, harvest them and plant again. – There’s your carbon sink.
You can’t just analyse footprints, you have to compare footprints.
It’s not as simple as how much carbon, it has to take into account where that carbon came from.

Sensationalism meets sentimentalism, where’s the science?

Michael Hutton,
Tamworth NSW Australia

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