What Do You Think About Being Carbon Neutral?

Question

http://www.suntimes.com/news/steyn/281949,CST-EDT-STEYN04.article

"How do "carbon offsets" work? Well, let's say you're a former vice president and you want to reduce your "carbon footprint," but the gorgeous go-go Gore gals are using the hair dryer every night. So you go to a carbon-credits firm and pay some money and they'll find a way of getting somebody on the other side of the planet to reduce his emissions and the net result will be "carbon neutral." It's like in Henry VIII's day. He'd be planning a big ox roast and piling on the calories but he'd give a groat to a starving peasant to carry on starving for another day and the result would be calorie-neutral."

Is Al-Gore the next King Henry VIII?(or would IX be more appropriate?)

Answer 1

Wow, except for "Short Bus" these answers are word for word from Limbaugh. Get a brain people!



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset

Answer 2

It's a great way to attach more fees to the price of gas. and other petroleum based products.



Remember the secret to financial prosperity is to discover another way to get a penny from everyone.



Carbon debt will line the pockets of it's inventors.



Go big Red Go

Answer 3

Carbon neutral is a joke! Just like the whole idea for some religious sects that if you give the church money, you can BUY the churches forgiveness. With a big enough donation, the church can forgive your whole family! Carbon neutral is just lame!

Answer 4

It's penance for the Church of Environmentalism. "I won't change my lifestyle but I'll pay to try to make up for it." It's a joke. If the carbon-neutral folks are so concerned about the planet, and if we are really on a path to destruction, they would conserve.

Answer 5

Wouldn't it just be better to conserve energy?

I think Carbon offsets are a crock. It just makes people feel better about wasting.

Answer 6

It is a crock!

It's a way for people who can afford it to pollute all they want and TRY to come out smelling rosy. In reality they come out smelling like the poop that they are to those with half a brain and can see right through it.

Answer 7

I think I am going to start selling carbon credits on ebay. There is a sucker born every minute..

Answer 8

What a joke. I would like to see some accountability...prove this crap to me. Surely somewhere there is a spread sheet.



Its a load of crap, if you care about the environment, you find a way to use less, not buy more to balance...how stupid

Answer 9

Not Much....Just another feel good non binding resolution

Answer 10

I'M TURNING UP THE HEAT AND OPENING THE DOOR, CAUSE I WANT TO BE CARBON POSITIVE!