Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:45:36 -0800
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From: Zeitgeist <gruengeist@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: My Carbon Forehead Print (on my screen)
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I hear ya...thinkin' about others is a real pain. Why bother?
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@comcast.net> wrote:
> I am so sick of hearing about the "Carbon Footprint" of everything. Our
> Vanagons have one. You have one, I have one, everything has one. That
> is because everything that does anything needs energy to do it. If I
> was a rock I would have no carbon footprint. But then I would be a rock
> and I wouldn't care. But I am a human. No matter how many
> technological advances are made, I am made to intake oxygen and expel
> carbon dioxide. I hate that this is now classified as a pollutant!
> It makes me feel like I am some type of interloper on my own planet. If
> a planet would need to be devoid of life in order to have the smallest
> "Carbon Footprint" possible then what is the point?
>
> And the people who are so worried about our "Carbon Footprint" fly
> around the world having conferences and meetings to reduce global
> warming emissions. They use energy to do this and they chop down trees
> printing their carbon emission reduction literature to give out at their
> meetings. I think it is a farce at best, a huge swindle at worst. The
> amount of carbon dioxide we are talking about is less than a tenth of 1
> percent of all of the "carbon emissions" that are being put in the
> atmosphere. The rest occurs through natural events. Decaying wood in
> the forests of the world gives off more carbon emissions. Let's stop
> trees from dying, that will be more effective. I know how to do that,
> let's make more carbon emissions because that is what trees breathe in
> (carbon dioxide). So I say who cares what my carbon footprint is. If
> my electric bill is too high, or my gas bill is too high, or it costs a
> bunch of money to drive my van, then I will have to cut back on these
> things and conserve. These are normal market forces and that is the way
> it should be. Worrying about how much carbon was created by the farmer
> in New Zealand who grew the apple you are eating as you read this is
> just plain nuts!
>
> Sorry I just had to blow off some carbon :-)
> Remember Y2K!
>
> Have a great Friday,
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
> www.vanagain.com
>
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