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Posted by Michael Pardee on June 2, 2007, 11:59 am
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> geneccc@gmail.com wrote:
>> If you plant some trees, is it OK to drive an Escalade? The question
>> isn't as silly as it sounds. People worried about global warming
>> increasingly are trying to "offset" the carbon dioxide - the leading
>> greenhouse gas - they spew into the atmosphere when they drive, fly or
>> flick on a light. One idea popular with the eco-conscious is to have
>> trees planted for them. You get to keep driving and flying, but those
>> trees are supposed to suck in your trail of carbon.
>>
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> I guess you could give those in prison for murder the ultimate carbon
> credit since they cut their contribution in half by killing another human
> being. If it was a young person younger than they, such as a child
> murderer, they would get more credit. There would also be a multiplier
> effect due to the resulting unborn if the person killed was prepubescent .
> People like Saddam Hussein should have gotten enough carbon offsets to
> avoid the death penalty anyway since he eliminated over a million trails
> of carbon dioxide. Maybe we can look at people like Hitler, Stalin and Pol
> Pot in a new eco-light.
>
>
Ooh, you're bad! ;-) You really don't want to hear my view.
The world is a wacky place. Amphetamines are notorious for destroying lives,
but the one really useful thing amphetamines did for us was to destroy
Hitler. I still shudder to think how close fascism was to sweeping the
world.
I love one of Robert Fulghum's quotes from a source I don't recall: "We
usually know what we do. We usually even think we know why we do it. What we
don't know is what 'what we do' does."
Mike
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