That would help because plants consume CO2. Today it was announced that Richard Branson and Al Gore have teamed up and are offering a $25 million prize to anyone who can figure out a way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. They have not yet told us how much unwanted CO2 is in the atmosphere, so I wonder how much they want to remove.
Only problem I can see is not everyone has acres of land to plant forests, woods, trees or even a few plants. But anyone who has the space it can't do any harm.
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"The scientific opinion is that we have a ceiling of 440 parts per million (ppm) of atmospheric carbon before there is a tipping point, a step change in the rate of global warming," Professor Smith said. "The rate at which we are emitting now, around 2ppm a year and rising, we could expect that that tripping point will reach us in 20 years' time. That gives us 10 years to develop technologies that could start to bite into the problem."
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has indicated that stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at "moderate" levels might require cutting fossile fuel use by 60 to 80 percent worldwide. Kyoto member countries might have to cut much more in order to balance the rising emissions of developing countries such as China and India which Kyoto exempts from compliance. China is building 562 new coal fired power plants, at the rate of one every five days.
I don't know why any green minded person would not boycott Chinese products.
if you own a 200ftx200ft plot of land.. plant a tree!
it'll work baby!
for some odd reason, while the word "Ganya" was still just a thought-dropping in my head, I thought it'd only be four letters. But apparently it's five. yep.
EUCLID said this in post #6 : I don't know why any green minded person would not boycott Chinese products.
Boycott whoever you like, but don't China make EVERYTHING?
No-one's immune from the effects of global warming, including China, so they are going to have to do something, but they're on an economic roll right now, but still producing less carbon than the US.
Boycott whoever you like, but don't China make EVERYTHING?
No-one's immune from the effects of global warming, including China, so they are going to have to do something, but they're on an economic roll right now, but still producing less carbon than the US.
The architects of Kyoto REQUIRE the U.S. and European countries to do something about MMGW now, but they do not require any such action by China. And China is not volunteering to do it. True, China is producing less carbon than the U.S., but that will soon reverse. Why do green minded people think it is OK for China to be on an economic roll at the expense of the environment while it is not OK for the U.S. to be on one?
P.S. China does make, or is on the way to making EVERYTHING, but they would not be if people didn't buy it. The green consumer is in the driver seat. It is solely the choice of the green consumer as to whether or not to be a hypocrite.
EUCLID said this in post #9 :Why do green minded people think it is OK for China to be on an economic roll at the expense of the environment while it is not OK for the U.S. to be on one?
I don't personally think it's okay for China to continue polluting the way they are, but like India, they are a developing country. The goods that China makes are also the goods we import and buy.
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P.S. China does make, or is on the way to making EVERYTHING, but they would not be if people didn't buy it.
Companies have moved to China because the labour is cheap, laws and working rules slack, and the goods are made as we like them - cheap, throwaway and plentiful. China is every capitalist's dream come true.
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The green consumer is in the driver seat. It is solely the choice of the green consumer as to whether or not to be a hypocrite.
And I'm sure many green consumers look into products before buying them, or they wouldn't really be "green consumers".
That is an effective solution if it can be implemented. But the fact is that if everyone will do their own piece of work then all the contributions will combine together to present a great solution.
I agree that is a good solution. There is lots of unused land in the world (I got the chance to travel through russia this summer... yeah, they got more land that they will be ever able to use).
I never paid much attention, guess I shoulda known
every far away country is somebody's home
empires rise and empires fall
the world is big enough, there should be room for us all
who are they and why do they hate us?
02-09-2007 09:16 PM
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