Christmas is Damaging the Environment

[Sequoia]

SYDNEY, Australia — Christmas is damaging the environment, says a new report by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

The report titled "The Hidden Cost of Christmas" calculated the environmental impact of spending on books, clothes, alcohol, electrical appliances and lollies during the festive season.

Every dollar Australians spend on new clothes as gifts consumes 20 litres (four gallons) of water and requires 3.4 square metres (37 sq feet) of land in the manufacturing process, it said.

Last Christmas, Australians spent A$1.5 billion (US$1.1 billion) on clothes, which required more than half a million hectares (1.2 million acres) of land to produce, it said.

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Expect O'Reilly to put the country of Austrila on his enemy list!!

[Wilms]

1. Why do they hate gluttony?

:shrug:

[NNadir]

2. Rank consumerism is destroying the environment. Christmas is a consumer

festival that celebrates and elevates consumerism, that is all.

[Spinzonner]

3. Is missile-toe a WMD ?