Comments on: C02 Cap & Trade thought http://www.rogue-development.com/blog2/2008/05/c02-cap-trade-thought/ Comments and thoughts on technology from Marc Hughes Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:03:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Marc http://www.rogue-development.com/blog2/2008/05/c02-cap-trade-thought/#comment-310 Marc Thu, 29 May 2008 16:32:37 +0000 http://www.rogue-development.com/blog2/?p=210#comment-310 Environmentalists, by definition, are people who are concerned about the environment. Whether Al Gore is actually an environmentalist or not doesn't matter. There are millions of people out there who are. Every person who chooses to recycle instead of throwing something away, shuts off a light they're not using at work, or chooses to buy products made in an eco-friendly way over an option that's not is an environmentalist. This is an opportunity for a brand new type of charity that is focused on this mechanism of reducing pollution to form. Then anyone who donates to a charity for environmental reasons has another option. A million people donating $5 goes a lot further than one person donating a million. There are a bunch of charities based around a clean world, and regular people DO put their money where their mouth is and donate to them. Environmentalists, by definition, are people who are concerned about the environment. Whether Al Gore is actually an environmentalist or not doesn’t matter. There are millions of people out there who are. Every person who chooses to recycle instead of throwing something away, shuts off a light they’re not using at work, or chooses to buy products made in an eco-friendly way over an option that’s not is an environmentalist.

This is an opportunity for a brand new type of charity that is focused on this mechanism of reducing pollution to form. Then anyone who donates to a charity for environmental reasons has another option. A million people donating $5 goes a lot further than one person donating a million. There are a bunch of charities based around a clean world, and regular people DO put their money where their mouth is and donate to them.

]]> By: Stymie http://www.rogue-development.com/blog2/2008/05/c02-cap-trade-thought/#comment-309 Stymie Thu, 29 May 2008 16:18:31 +0000 http://www.rogue-development.com/blog2/?p=210#comment-309 You naively assume that environmentalists are motivated by a desire for a cleaner environment. If that were true, people like Al Gore would quit jetting around the globe in private jets, spewing more carbon in a single trip than my SUV does in probably its entire service life. Don't ever expect these hypocrites to put their own money where their mouths are. I'll act like global warning is an emergency when the people who tell me it is, start acting like it is. You naively assume that environmentalists are motivated by a desire for a cleaner environment. If that were true, people like Al Gore would quit jetting around the globe in private jets, spewing more carbon in a single trip than my SUV does in probably its entire service life. Don’t ever expect these hypocrites to put their own money where their mouths are.

I’ll act like global warning is an emergency when the people who tell me it is, start acting like it is.

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