Pumpkins cause Global Warming

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Energy Department smashes pumpkins for causing climate change



How scary are your jack-o’-lanterns? Scarier than you think, according to the Energy Department, which claims the holiday squash is responsible for unleashing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Most of the 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkins produced in the U.S. end up in the trash, says the Energy Department’s website, becoming part of the “more than 254 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) produced in the United States every year.”

Municipal solid waste decomposes into methane, “a harmful greenhouse gas that plays a part in climate change, with more than 20 times the warming effect of carbon dioxide,” Energy says.


wouldn't that be ALL Organic Matter decomposing ? not just pumpkins
 

SamSpade

Well-Known Member
They're pumpkins. What else will happen to them - are we supposed to BRONZE them?

They're going to decay. That's what they do, along with all other organic matter.
 
I think the point is: if people didn't indulge in everything pumpkin there wouldn't be fields and fields of pumpkins to distribute and decay.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
I think the point is: if people didn't indulge in everything pumpkin there wouldn't be fields and fields of pumpkins to distribute and decay.



right except for Halloween there is no reason to grown extra vegetable matter that will just ROT
 
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