Al Gore and his tree-hugging Leftist Socialists are putting forth the concept of everyone going “Carbon Neutral.” Nice idea. Nice concept. Full of CRAP.
Here are the basics (and trust me, you don’t need to know more):
1. Americans are bad.
2. Americans who drive SUV’s are evil.
3. Americans who eat meat and run the water while they brush their teeth are Satan-like.
4. In order to ‘offset’ our voracious and consumptive lifestyle, we need to do something to eliminate the CO2 we produce.
5. It just so happens that a company will gladly accept your money and use it to do things that increase the CO2 scrubbing capability of the Earth (the going rate is about $13.50/tonne of CO2 produced).
Read this taken directly from earthfuture.com:
“So, you’ve done everything you can, and you’re still producing CO2 emissions. What can you do? You can buy carbon offsets that will either absorb your emissions (by planting trees), or prevent the release of a similar amount of CO2 by other means. The going price is around $13.50 ($10 US) a tonne, so if you produced 20 tonnes of CO2 last year, you owe the Earth $270 in “One World” carbon taxes, which can be used to neutralize your emissions. The Solar Electric Light Fund, based in Washington DC, will accept your carbon neutralizing contributions ($10 US per tonne) and use it to help low income families in Bhutan, Brazil or the Solomon Islands install solar PV systems, displacing the use of kerosene or diesel. Or you can invest in a tree-planting program: one tree will absorb 1 tonne of CO2 over 40 years, and you should plant three to be sure that one survives. If you produce 20 tonnes of CO2 a year, you’d need to plant 60 trees.”
Sing me up! I can’t wait to start paying my One World Carbon Taxes!!!
I think that if they reduced the amount of CRAP they were dishing out, the methane levels would be offset. Give me a break!
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