Carbon Footprint

When ever a marathon is arranged in a major american city, there are road closures due to the "runner’s route" being cordoned off for the course.
In other cities most folks "can" find an alternate route.
However, this Sunday, the California International Marathon is being held in Sacramento.
Unfortunately there are No Alternate routes for drivers. Mostly because the course starts near the bottom of the Folsom Dam. Cutting off the nearest bridge crossing across the American River, there are no other crossings for 40 miles up above the dam, and no crossings 30 miles down the river that will not impede on the runners course.

Some of the cross streets of the course, there are police that will permit a few cars at a time to cross the course. Folks trying to get to the other side have to line up and wait for the next break of runners to let a batch of cars through.
Last year there were lines of cars at all the designated course crossings up to 3 miles long, not including the bottleneck at the actual crossing street.
On several occasions ambulances were stuck in these bottlenecks.

Anyway, how much gasoline is wasted and converted to air pollution because the CIM still can’t figure out how to erect a "temporary" pedestrian overpass for the course runners, even if its only one or two temporary bridges to permit through traffic to continue without impediment?

I’m writing an argumentative essay on weapons of mass destruction.

How do they damage the environment? I’m not looking for exactly what causes the damage, more like how long it takes to recover, etc.

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My Mercedes can get as much as 24 mpg on the highway…

Welfare mom/kids need:
8 showers daily,
24 meals per day, (that’s 8,740 per year - all paid for by taxpayers)
50-70 sets of clothes, that need to be replaced each year
14 designer basketball shoes per year (no housing project mom would have their kids seen in anything less than 0 pair of sneaks)
7 gold chains - 14 diamonds studs (for boys) hoops (for girls)
8 Cellphones
1 used, oil dripping, smoking, Cadillac with 19" rims
Cases and cases of aerosol spray paint, to develop the kids "art in public places"

WOW - that’s quite the FOOT PRINT we pay for with out taxes…

Shouldn’t we go GREEN and get rid of welfare?

I know there is no atmosphere on the moon, so there’s no co2 or oxygen. It also gets extremely hot and extremely cold (+260 to -280 degrees Fahrenheit), both too extreme for a plant to survive. But what if it was housed in some sort of artificial environment, like a protective dome structure? What would be required for plants to be grown in it, and to keep it going?

I am doing a survey and research onto whether people actually bother to conserve and take care of the environment in our very small ways, mainly domestically. An example of this would be that you usually put your old newspapers into the recycle bin, whether you bother to bring your own shopping bag to a shopping center, or sometimes even just choose a hybrid car over a normal one, for those higher-privileged people.