How green is my......carbon offset....
Gee - the chirping crickets in the media were sure loud when National Geographic released THIS global warming - eh - global climate change story!
"Climate change could lead to stronger wind shear, a weather pattern that weakens hurricanes, a new study says. Some previous, widely publicized studies have linked global warming to stronger hurricanes. "
Gee I wonder why that was.....
One thing that the global warming/global climate change zealots don't tell you is the adverse effect on the economy.
"FOOD-PRICE inflation so severe that central banks are forced to raise interest rates to growth-stifling levels; corn prices so high that poor Mexicans can’t afford their tortillas; massive deforestation to make way for more corn and palm oil; poor farmers pushed off their land to make room for carbon-offsetting plantings paid for by rich jet-setters; and Al Gore for president.
These are some of the unintended consequences of hastily conceived environmental policies."
They also don't talk about the hypocricy of their "carbon offsets" or how those "offsets" don't really do a darned thing other than make the stars and starlets "feel better" about their MONSTEROUS carbon footprint.
"...you get the idea: the reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions claimed by those intent on being green without changing their lifestyles are often bogus — they would have happened without the purchase of offsets. "
They really don't care that poor farmers are being forced off of their land to plant "carbon offsetting trees" for their rich neighbors, they don't care that South American rainforests are being clear cut in order to produce palm oil for biofuel. All they care about is making an empty gesture to show that "they care". If they really cared, they would park the jet, ditch the entourage and drive a Prius on their daily commute like the rest of us.
"Climate change could lead to stronger wind shear, a weather pattern that weakens hurricanes, a new study says. Some previous, widely publicized studies have linked global warming to stronger hurricanes. "
Gee I wonder why that was.....
One thing that the global warming/global climate change zealots don't tell you is the adverse effect on the economy.
"FOOD-PRICE inflation so severe that central banks are forced to raise interest rates to growth-stifling levels; corn prices so high that poor Mexicans can’t afford their tortillas; massive deforestation to make way for more corn and palm oil; poor farmers pushed off their land to make room for carbon-offsetting plantings paid for by rich jet-setters; and Al Gore for president.
These are some of the unintended consequences of hastily conceived environmental policies."
They also don't talk about the hypocricy of their "carbon offsets" or how those "offsets" don't really do a darned thing other than make the stars and starlets "feel better" about their MONSTEROUS carbon footprint.
"...you get the idea: the reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions claimed by those intent on being green without changing their lifestyles are often bogus — they would have happened without the purchase of offsets. "
They really don't care that poor farmers are being forced off of their land to plant "carbon offsetting trees" for their rich neighbors, they don't care that South American rainforests are being clear cut in order to produce palm oil for biofuel. All they care about is making an empty gesture to show that "they care". If they really cared, they would park the jet, ditch the entourage and drive a Prius on their daily commute like the rest of us.
Labels: Global Climate Change, Hollywood
posted by The Lady Logician at
4:11 PM
3 Comments:
I have an even easier solution for them: simply realize that all of mankind is contributing only about one-tenth of 1% (.001) to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and that their paltry percentage of THAT is worth exactly nothing. Let them go back to making movies that somebody wants to see, and EARN the attention they seek.
J. Ewing
By
Anonymous, at 9:43 PM
But what will that do for their feelings?????? They have to do something to make themselves FEEL better......
LL
By
The Lady Logician, at 9:55 PM
I suggest method acting, where you set your feelings by the script. That's their job. They shouldn't be writing their own scripts, or doing something that's already been done to death, like Al Gore's Gorebal Warmania.
J. Ewing
By
Anonymous, at 8:01 AM
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