How much do YOU fuck up the environment?

[El]

http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/

[Scrapheap]

Is this an AlGore site??  He's such a pompous wanker. 

[McGiver]

i got a 3.95 avg
smaller than the national average of about 7.

[DirtDawg]

5.15

I can't take this seriously, since they didn't asked me how many thousands of trees I have planted in my life.

[Nomaken]

They didn't ask me about how I stand outside in my driveway everyday spraying aerosol cans into the sky.

[Callaway]

4.05, but like DirtDawg said, it did not ask how many trees I planted.

It has a link where you can pay money to offset your carbon dioxide production.  

You can pay for wind energy or for methane, which is another greenhouse gas, along with water vapor.

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

They have an easy monthly payment plan of $1 per ton, or you can pay a lump sum for the year.

 

Is this an AlGore site??  He's such a pompous wanker. 

Yeah, I think it's Al Gore's site.

They paid this Native Energy project to offset the carbon dioxide costs of producing An Inconvenient Truth.

How the movie was offset:

With NativeEnergy, Participant Productions and Paramount Pictures Classics offset 100% of the CO2 pollution from air and ground travel, production energy use, and waste associated with the making of An Inconvenient Truth. Participant Productions and Paramount Pictures Classics made the film climate neutral and are helping build the Rosebud St. Francis wind farm in South Dakota and the Dovan family dairy farm methane renewable energy project in Pennsylvania.

You too, can offset the CO2 from your daily actions, such as travel, commuting and heating & powering your home with NativeEnergy.

[Nomaken]

I guess they consider planting tree's a moot point if you make the environment too fucked up to have them survive.

[rocketturtle]

on february 2, 2007, global warming has finally been internationally recognized by the scientific community as a real threat.

http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11088-blame-for-global-warming-placed-firmly-on-humankind.html

edit: whoops. i didn't realize another thread already had something about this. i haven't been online that much lately so i am currently catching up on older threads and this one was listed before the other one.

[Callaway]

It appears to me that people who live near the coasts will have to move inland.

I think using more nuclear power, solar power and wind power instead of fossil fuels will mitigate the climate change that is coming, but it will not reverse it completely.

[Nomaken]

Oh, that's nice.  What does america think?  Until the american government recognizes it, no matter how much ass the rest of the world kicks at mending the damage, america is gonna spoil their efforts.

[DirtDawg]

Oh, that's nice.  What does america think?  Until the american government recognizes it, no matter how much ass the rest of the world kicks at mending the damage, america is gonna spoil their efforts.

If you do more research, you will find that the USA is doing far more than many other countries to clean up the messes we have made. There is not that "much ass the rest of the world kicks at mending the damage".

[Nomaken]

But does the next administration consider it an important part of their running ticket? 

[Callaway]

But does the next administration consider it an important part of their running ticket? 

If Hilary Clinton wins the election it will be.  She was speaking about global warming recently.

http://zfacts.com/p/660.html

[El]

They also didn't ask if I ate meat, which I don't, so I'm not contributing to the cattle fucking up the environment.

[DirtDawg]

I think this quote from that article is Hilaryous.

"Take a serious look at nuclear."