Global Warming and Carbon Footprints
I decided to measure my personal Carbon Footprint using http://www.carbonfootprint.com today - This site seems just to be some (hopefully) well meaning con to guilt-trip people into giving money to plant trees somewhere in Africa which I am sure will end up being chopped down to make paper or something before they are of any use whatsoever in carbon sinking.
The site is a little simplistic and only provides an un-offset figure - It doesn’t ask the question “How many acres of woodland or forest do you have” which is odd considering that ultimately, their aim is to get you to fork out money so that they can plant trees to offset all the carbon that you are pumping out into the atmosphere.
Anyway, all that aside I put my data into it and my Carbon Footprint per year (before any offsets are applied) is 9,273 Kg compared to the national UK average of 5,013 Kg. Of course, it doesn’t allow me to factor in offsets so I did my own adjustments and apparently my Carbon Footprint is actually -190,700 Kg.
That is over minus 190 tonnes a year - How fucking smug should I feel now? Absolutely, enormously, stonkingly, hugely fucking smug, that’s how fucking smug I should feel now.
Right! Now! Speaking from my absolutely, enormously, stonkingly, hugely fucking smug and very righteous pedestal, I want to express my pissed offness at this new airport passenger tax which has been imposed on us by Blair’s Stasi and backed by the Green Party and Friends of the Earth. When twatty little environmental group spokespeople with their half million quid, solar-aided middle class homes and their £40,000 environmentally friendly cars say that they want to make air travel so expensive that normal people can’t afford it; claiming that this will save the planet for their privately schooled, chinless little offspring Tarquin and Lucretia, then sorry but I want to put an incendiary bullet into them and their methane recycling systems. Cheap Air Travel is a godsend to Europe and is doing a hell of a lot more social good than it is doing environmental bad.
I have never had problems with Friends of the Earth before but now I do and I can’t be the only one. A fluid European population and workforce is a good thing and cheap air travel is vital for this and of course, the people this will most effect are the poor. Go pick on someone else why don’t you?
“Cheap Air Travel is a godsend to Europe and is doing a hell of a lot more social good than it is doing environmental bad.”
Even as an environmental engineer (although with an abroad living bf) I have to agree with that. And you could even argument with the fact that the social network you build up and maintain is helping the good communication also to ensure new agreements and contract for environmental benefits. I know this is a bit farfetched, but it IS a true fact.
And of course I am and would like to continue to benefit from the cheap air travel fares in the future. Somebody told me though, that this status we have at the moment won’t last for much longer than maybe two years or so. It already went up a bit.
Of course, one of the problems with this is that I don’t even slightly believe that the CO2 we are creating is causing global warning. The sun is in a warmer period, Mars is heating up the same as we are. The planet has ice ages, it has meltdowns. What the hell is the big deal?
Ah yea… I forgot that we are all arrogant fuckers who refuse to believe that things happen without us and that we can’t do something to fix it; and anyway the oil companies need something else to make money on - Let’s wait for “Carbon reduced fuel” and Haliburton getting the major contract to dispose of all the carbon in holes under the sea.
Can I move to Mars? I hear it should have a nicer climate soon.
Me.
Global warming is caused by Michael’s incessant wanking. Jesus weeping on the cross, don’t people know ANYTHING anymore?