Canadian Beer Drinkers Threaten Planet

No Duh!

Here's the science:

Old, inefficient "beer fridges" that one in three Canadian households use to store their Molson and Labatt's contribute significantly to global warming by guzzling gas- and coal-fired electricity.

Heres' the sermonizing:

"People need to understand the impact of their lifestyles," British environmental consultant Joanna Yarrow tells New Scientist magazine. "Clearly the environmental implications of having a frivolous luxury like a beer fridge are not hitting home. This research helps inform people — let's hope it has an effect."

All I have to say is that a beer fridge may be a frivolous luxury, but so is holding two week long environmental conferences in Bali. Or maybe they actually had a math program calculate the distance from each attendees position and determined Bali was the closest locale? I think not.

Wait a minute, a British (female!) environmental consultant, thinks drinking cold beer is a frivolous luxury? Huh. I guess drinking warm pints would be fine. Or switching to wine spritzers or vodka crans or whatever the ladies are drinking nowadays. And we could sure cut down on our carbon output if we switched off TV when sports was on, too.

p.s. Did she consider that all of our hard work drinking beer is just to lock up excess carbon into the carbon sinks commonly known as beer bellies?