Single sized carbon credit

[Urruke]

While I'm all for reducing our emmissions into the atmosphere, it's alittle much when people say we'll "kill the entire world". Rather fanatical. Even if we have a nuclear war (which is rather plosible in the next world war) the earth itself won't die. Many animals will become extinct, many many humans will die, and the world will be thrown into another iceage, but she won't die. While on the flip side, the planet is already facing global warming, and even if we stop everything this very second it won't stop completely. Manymany people will die, the ice caps will welt, and there will be lots of extictions, but the planet won't die. Look into the hystory of the world. The continents used to be in different places, there have been ice ages and global warmings, and it's most likely to repeat itself like it has done for millions of years. Take egypt. Parts that are now desert where a paradice only 3000 years ago. The earth changes, we just seem to be making it change at a rather alarming rate.

Cow have been eaten since before cars and fosil fules and factories, only when humans ruined the environment did things become a problem, don't blame animals since they produce it naturally.

[ZenGum]

About the cows, some bio-boffins in Australia have noticed that kangaroos eat the same food as cows, extract 10-15% more energy from it per kilo, and produce virtually no methane.
The first step is for Australian to eat more 'roo and less beef (much better for the environment for other reasons as well ... hard-hoofed animals do lots of damage to the Australian landscape).
The second step is that the aforementioned bio-boffins have worked out that kangaroos can do this because of the specific bacteria in their guts, and are now working to adjust this bacteria so it can be given to cows.
If this works we can have cows that need 10% less feed and produce no methane. Fingers crossed.

[slang]

Originally Posted by Urruke

While I'm all for reducing our emmissions into the atmosphere ...

So you don't want to buy a single sized carbon credit. Ok. Tell me, is the cost too high or are the C02 reductions just not enough?

My credit is for sale, that's no joke. This whole arrangement is designed to allow people to dump their guilt about SUV emissions and the like. I know, you know, we all know that this isn't going to have an effect and that the earth will always survive us anyway.

It's the guilt factor and the ability for someone to brag that they have indeed made changes to reduce their output, they bought some effing credits the other day.