Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Lose Weight, Save Money and Really Reduce Greenhouse Gases
    Lose Weight, Save Money and Really Reduce Greenhouse Gases
    Lose Weight, Save Money and Really Reduce Greenhouse Gases
    Ebook82 pages1 hour

    Lose Weight, Save Money and Really Reduce Greenhouse Gases

    By Stephen Simac

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The U.S.A. produces one fourth of human generated Greenhouse Gases with only 5% of the world's population. Unless we radically reduce our carbon emissions, predictions for environmental and social catastrophes paint a bleak future our children and grandchildren will have to endure. The cause seems hopeless, since so few Americans are invested in reducing their carbon footprint, while more developing countries are investing in emitting GHG as rapidly as they can capitalize.
    Part of the problem is that the rewards of reducing are portrayed as long term, while the actions needed are seen as sacrifices. Actually, our energy intensive and dependent lifestyle causes obesity and is unaffordable for the majority of working class Americans. This book identifies the major sources of human generated GHG contributing to Global Warming, (GW) or Climate Change (CC), and reports on affordable, available solutions that will drastically reduce emissions. Systemic solutions for the seven systems that generate most GHG, our Military, Electricity generation and transmission, Construction and maintenance of buildings, Transportation, Health Care, Agriculture and Economic Inequality are proposed. These will really reduce GHG, and rapidly benefit the majority of the country by helping them save money and lose weight.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Simac
    Release dateMay 10, 2014
    ISBN9781311100023
    Lose Weight, Save Money and Really Reduce Greenhouse Gases
    Author

    Stephen Simac

    I have been researching and writing about health and wellness for thirty five years. I have a masters degree in integral health studies, extensive knowledge of nutrition, supplements, exercise and years of practice in a variety of healing, recovery and stress reduction techniques. My focus is on individual and public wellness promotion and this book is the result of an idea for health care reform that prioritizes improving health rather than treating preventable illness and injury.

    Read more from Stephen Simac

    Related to Lose Weight, Save Money and Really Reduce Greenhouse Gases

    Related ebooks

    Self-Improvement For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Selected Literature

      Apr 15, 2021

      Bjorn Lomborg, False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurt the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet. Haclette Book Group. July 2020. ISBN 978-1-5416-4746-6 Daniel Simboloff, Invasive Species – What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford Unive

      1 min read

    • Article

      How To Bolster Your Immune System

      Aug 31, 2020

      So what has been shown to work? Broadly, the things you can do fall into seven categories, all of which overlap and reinforce each other. If you have a large waist then you are at much greater risk of becoming seriously ill if you get Covid-19. Why?

      2 min read

    • Article

      8 Best Climate Emergency Books That Help You To Understand The Crisis

      Apr 29, 2021

      Here we are – over a year into the pandemic. No one wants to be the bearer of more bad news, but while we’ve all been at home, the climate emergency has not stopped. In fact, we now know that the fall in carbon emissions is likely to have had very li

      5 min read

    • Article

      An Eternal Delight

      Apr 19, 2021

      An Eternal Delight
      10 min read

    • Article

      One Generation

      Feb 10, 2021

      IF you’re going to embark on a green campaign, you’d better get your facts right, particularly if you want to take on the British dairy industry. The American-backed, Swedish-developed Oatly started so well. Oat milk does not suffer from any of the e

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Bad News Blues

      Jul 8, 2020

      The Bad News Blues
      8 min read

    • Article

      Future-Proof the PLANET

      Mar 8, 2022

      Future-Proof the PLANET
      6 min read

    • Article

      From The EDITOR

      Feb 28, 2024

      From The EDITOR
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Bad News Blues

      Oct 28, 2020

      The Bad News Blues
      8 min read

    • Article

      Images For The Future

      Aug 6, 2023

      Congratulations on featuring outstanding colourised images from the early 20th century (“Portraits of another world”, August 5) in the same issue as the last article in your brilliant Hardship & Hope series. The place-based initiatives that Rebecca M

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Denial Syndrome

      Feb 13, 2023

      The Denial Syndrome
      6 min read

    • Article

      Hope For The Future

      Jul 6, 2022

      Hope For The Future
      4 min read

    • Article

      Meet The Author

      Jul 22, 2019

      Why a survival guide? It’s all about taking action and, well, surviving. I’ve been increasingly worried about climate change – something you can’t help but worry about if you look at the science – and this is the kind of book that I wanted to read: a

      3 min read

    • Article

      Climate Emergency

      Jul 11, 2021

      It’s all very well for Pat Baskett (Letters, July 3) to talk about frugality and saving electricity. This doesn’t work when the big power companies need to make a profit. In the current commercial environment, estimates are that by 2050, New Zealand

      10 min read

    • Article

      Future Timeline

      Dec 3, 2020

      Future Timeline
      3 min read

    • Article

      World Environment Day: What Action Can I Take To Tackle The Climate Crisis?

      Jun 9, 2021

      The climate crisis is the biggest existential challenge modern humans have ever faced, and judging by our progress so far we’re not coping with the threat of annihilation very well. Ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall, it bears repeating that those se

      9 min read

    • Article

      So You Want To Be A Climatarian

      Mar 1, 2021

      So You Want To Be A Climatarian
      5 min read

    • Article

      Hot Topic

      Oct 16, 2019

      Hot Topic
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Climate Choice

      Apr 8, 2020

      The Climate Choice
      4 min read

    • Article

      Making Real Change

      Jun 3, 2019

      Making Real Change
      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Lose Weight, Save Money and Really Reduce Greenhouse Gases

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Lose Weight, Save Money and Really Reduce Greenhouse Gases - Stephen Simac

      LOSE WEIGHT, SAVE MONEY

      AND

      REALLY REDUCE GREENHOUSE GASES

      Stephen Simac

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 Stephen Simac

      Discover other titles by Stephen Simac as Smashwords. Com

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person,

      please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy if you think it's worth a few bucks. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Text Copyright 2014 Stephen Simac

      All Rights Reserved

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person,

      please purchase an additional copy for each recipient, if you think it's worth a few bucks. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Introduction:

      Directions for Systemic Shifts in Militarism, Electricity Generation, Building, Transportation, Health Care, Agriculture and Inequality to Really Reduce GHG, Lose Weight and Save Money.

      This is no pyramid scam, although it sounds suspiciously like one. Most Americans want to lose weight, save some money, and if it also prevents an environmental disaster that threatens the fate of human society, that's a bonus. This plan will also lower your medical bills, make you smarter and sexier with whiter teeth too. Everyone’s a winner.

      Unless, of course more urgent desires distract us from the sensible goals presented here to radically reduce Greenhouse Gases (GHG). This book identifies the major sources of human gessnerated GHG contributing to Global Warming, (GW), Climate Change (CC), Extreme Weather Phenomona (EWP), (or whatever the latest acronym that explains what's going on with the weather) and reports on affordable, available solutions that will drastically reduce emissions.

      Entire industries depend on pumping GHG out into the atmosphere without paying for their social and environmental costs, and they'd like to keep it that way. You will not read much about these major sources or alternative solutions in mainstream media. Even for alternative media, this is a groundbreaking, systematic solution.

      It won't be easy to achieve these goals, even if human civilization depends on us doing so. However the rewards for individuals and society from really reducing GHG are enormous, aside from benefiting the entire planet. If they actually believe in GW, Americans do want to reduce GHG. Only about half to a third of Americans do believe according to various polls. Even fewer are doing more than snapping their fingers.

      Belief seems to fluctuate as widely as the weather, despite or perhaps because of a relentless PR campaign to convince us of impending doom from GW. Most scientists, media pundits and politicians are on board, but since many don't trust them to be fair and balanced, that may do more harm than good. The numbers of believers should increase if climate prognostications are correct. Especially those who live near the coast or in a trailer, both particularly susceptible to predicted results from our carbon belching ways.

      Americans are addicted to emitting vast quantities of carbon and methane, the two major sources of human created GHG. Reducing our carbon footprint, much less our methane mittens is a hard sell. Our high-powered, glamorous society runs on the stuff. Any politician or environmental expert claiming that the American Way Of Life (AWOL), only needs to be tweaked a bit to neutralize our Carbon Bigfoot print is lying. Massive changes will have to be made if we’re going to make a halfway decent dent in GHG.

      Luckily those changes are affordable and healthier for people and the planet. AWOL is a known cause of poor health, widespread obesity and much of our stress and unhappiness. It’s not affordable, much less sustainable. So changing our self-destructive habits, while saving the planet seems like a great idea, something that should be easy for people to get onboard. But like any addiction, quitting is never easy and sobriety a struggle.

      That’s why legislation to really reduce GHG plays poorly in the blessed heartland and from coast to coast. Politicians aren't going to be the first on board that train. They'll wait until it's more than half full. We are addicted to fossil fuels to maintain AWOL and seemingly powerless to control our addiction. That’s the first step. Get out of Denial. We’re not actually helpless, so a higher power isn't necessary. Reality must spur us towards sustainability. The second step is to understand that we’ve been sold a lifestyle that can’t possibly withstand the coming superstorms. We are the little piggies in the straw house, and it ain't strawbale.

      Americans burn through one quarter of the world’s energy use. We emit an equal percentage of GHG, although we’re only 5% of global population. Even our 5% of the planet's children own half the toys. We squander the world’s resources because we believe it's what we need to be comfortable, what we've become accustomed to, never really thought deeply about. We could live far healthier, cheaper, cleaner, safer lives by burning a lot less fossil fuels. Those who really want to reduce GHG must coalesce around envisioning the transformations needed in systems we're embedded in. It will be like waking up in The Matrix and choosing a different pill than the one we're being force-fed in our sleep.

      AWOL, defended so fiercely by our military overseas and legal and economic system at home, is touted as a comfortable yet pleasantly stimulating affair by the advertisers selling it to us. If that’s so, then why are almost

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1