I hear ya...thinkin' about others is a real pain.  Why bother?

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@comcast.net> wrote:

> I am so sick of hearing about the "Carbon Footprint" of everything.  Our
> Vanagons have one.  You have one, I have one, everything has one.  That
> is because everything that does anything needs energy to do it.  If I
> was a rock I would have no carbon footprint.  But then I would be a rock
> and I wouldn't care.  But I am a human.  No matter how many
> technological advances are made, I am made to intake oxygen and expel
> carbon dioxide.  I hate that this is now classified as a pollutant!
> It makes me feel like I am some type of interloper on my own planet.  If
> a planet would need to be devoid of life in order to have the smallest
> "Carbon Footprint" possible then what is the point?
>
> And the people who are so worried about our "Carbon Footprint" fly
> around the world having conferences and meetings to reduce global
> warming emissions.  They use energy to do this and they chop down trees
> printing their carbon emission reduction literature to give out at their
> meetings.  I think it is a farce at best, a huge swindle at worst.  The
> amount of carbon dioxide we are talking about is less than a tenth of 1
> percent of all of the "carbon emissions" that are being put in the
> atmosphere.  The rest occurs through natural events.  Decaying wood in
> the forests of the world gives off more carbon emissions.  Let's stop
> trees from dying, that will be more effective.  I know how to do that,
> let's make more carbon emissions because that is what trees breathe in
> (carbon dioxide).  So I say who cares what my carbon footprint is.  If
> my electric bill is too high, or my gas bill is too high, or it costs a
> bunch of money to drive my van, then I will have to cut back on these
> things and conserve.  These are normal market forces and that is the way
> it should be.  Worrying about how much carbon was created by the farmer
> in New Zealand who grew the apple you are eating as you read this is
> just plain nuts!
>
> Sorry I just had to blow off some carbon :-)
> Remember Y2K!
>
> Have a great Friday,
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
> www.vanagain.com
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