Gestalt said...
another big fat fail cisco,
Oh NO!!! Not again. What should I do?? Maybe

, but before I do I better figure out whether burial or cremation is going to create more pollution.
Hey that's another thing they haven't discussed yet. What is the carbon footprint of dead people.
Let's see now. Flowers on the grave, pollution from the tractor digging the grave, pollution from the funeral procession vehicles then there is the ongoing pollution caused by the relatives visits to the grave for years to come. This could be really big.
Glad I thought about that one. I've got something to live for now. "Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Dead People".
From the quoted ABC article:-
The chief executive of the Minerals Council of Australia, Mitch Hooke, says the climate change argument should be about
commitments to solutions, not seeking concessions."Not getting into this business where the developing countries who have a lot more people and therefore lower per capita emissions think there should be less obligation on them to reduce emissions than the developing counties," he said.
"That's why we have this continuous per capita debate. It's about trying to shirk blame, it's about trying to shirk responsibility, yet in actual fact everybody has got to focus on solutions to managing climate change."
Mr Hooke says even if the Australian economy was shut down, it would only contribute to a lessening of global emissions by 2 per cent.O.K. everybody in Oz, it is time to leave. Go find another country to live in."The accent should be on technologies and developing the solutions to managing climate change, not getting into this warfare about who has the greatest degree of responsibility," he said.
"I'm saying to you even if we accepted that we're the highest per capita, and therefore that means we should be doing more, you still can't do it if you don't have the technologies.
"And you still can only shut down the Australian economy to the tune of contributing to about 1.5 per cent of emission to the global problem.
"It begs the question, what more do you want?"