"It [global warming] is a very valid issue. I'm wondering if we need to think about other planets and dome cities. Everyone can do their bit. But I don't know if it's not too late already. We have to think about alternative methods of fuel. "-- Actor John Travolta, 53, owner of five private planes – a customized Boeing 707, three Gulfstream jets and a Lear jet
John Travolta's home in Florida: Jet planes parked in the back and SUVs parked up front.
"Carbon credits" or "carbon offsets" are a hoot. They allow liberal hypocrites like Al Gore and John Travolta not to change their luxurious lifestyles and still claim to be "carbon-neutral." All they have to do is pay a monthly fee to any of a number of companies, including the one Gore owns, Generation Investment Management LLP, to buy "carbon offsets."
Carbon offsets work like the indulgences sold in the later middle ages. According to EcoBusiness Links (http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/carbon_offset_wind_credits_carbon_reduction.htm ), "[c]arbon offsets enable individuals and businesses to reduce the CO2 emissions they are responsible for by offsetting, reducing or displacing the CO2 in another place, typically where it is more economical to do so."
They can pay as little as $3.56 or as much as $39.48 per metric ton of CO2. All they have to do is calculate their carbon footprint (available from a number of websites. Just google the term), contact the company of their choice depending on the type of offset they desire and write those monthly checks. Their carbon offset provider will take care of the rest for them.
It is really hassle- and guilt-free. As a bonus, they can go on living the way they are living - fuel-guzzling planes and energy inefficient mansions are ok -while safe in the knowledge that their CO2 emissions are being "offset" somewhere else. Hopefully.
Their now guilt-free consciences will allow them to self-righteously preach to others about the importance of public transportation, the need to live under domes or the urgency to move to other planets.
1 comment:
Gee Othelmo, you have to remember, sacrifices for the environment are for US not the liberal elites. That is why we need "two Americas" to accomodate John Edwards and the rest of us. He wouldn't fit in "our" America. Same with all of these phony baloney leftists. These people have carbon "bootprints" compared to the rest of us. I find it increasingly ironic and amusing how many of the "elite" left who are championing the "little guy" have no concept of how those people live. Look at John Francois Kerry, Ted FoolAround Kennedy, Barbara Streisand, John Edwards, Al Bore Gore, Michael Moore, ..... the list is endless. Not one "common man" in that whole pack of Rats. Travolta at least has the decency to admit he isn't living what he talks. That is about all the credit he should get.
Post a Comment