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On Fox News' website there was a story about the ever so present Copenhagen Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. The story goes on to talk about how thousands of world leaders and VIPs have flooded to Copenhagen to "learn" about climate change and be presented on the world stage. The story also reveals that the people who have gone to the summit are actually hurting the environment more than they are helping it.
It took 140 private jets and 1,200 hired limousines to get the 30,000 or so environmentalist activists to Copenhagen. All of these hired vehicles and private jets equate to a small country like Switzerland's emissions of CO² in 2003. It reads that these people state that they went to this summit to learn how to further stop the emissions of CO² from their countries and their followers. They haven't helped stop CO² emissions by doing what they have done. Instead they have helped CO² become even more abundant in the atmosphere because they have, in-turn, done what they say should not be done, which is fly privately somewhere, and drive vehicles that are high CO² polluting vehicles. The story goes on to say that at Copenhagen they have tried to offset their carbon footprints by using energy efficient light-bulbs, powering them with a giant wind turbine, and offering guests recycled materials instead of wasteful water bottles.
Al Gore has been quoted to have said that even if you recycled everything you use and started using energy efficient bulbs that you still would not offset your carbon footprint if you are driving a gas guzzling vehicle. So them recycling everything that they use in Copenhagen would not even come near to them offsetting their carbon footprints that they have done in just one day of flying and driving around in private vehicles.
Explaining this article to you is easy. It is about a bunch of people who think that human life on earth is going to come to an abrupt end because there is too much CO² in the air. But, the reality is that all of these people have hypocritically down everything and anything they could to pollute the earth even more. I could also explain that there is this thing called the internet that has different things like Blogspot.com and Skype™ that anyone can use to talk to anyone in the world immediately. If these people really did care about what they are preaching then they would not waste an estimated amount of $215 million in total and they would maybe have put out a hundred tons of CO² emissions instead of 41,000 tons.
Sources;
-Fox News|World news Online
-The U.N.
-U.K. based Taxpayers' Alliance
-The Times of London
-NationMaster.com
And alot of regular jets, on top of the private jets! When you think about all the behind the scenes efforts that have to take place to make a conference like this happen, it does seem to be a waste of time and money, not to mention the impact left by their carbon footprint.
ReplyDeleteIt's a sad state of affairs that when this level of "important" people travel that it takes so much to get them there....luxury, security, etc. If they'd all just take care of their own carbon footprint and make a difference in their own community, there would be no need for this type of conference. If we would all do our part to keep the earth pollutant free by being mindful and good stewards of the resources we have been given, we'd not have to talk about these issues.
However, so long as we are as greedy as we are (gotta have it now)this is the result. Tough to get your mind around the fact that the majority of the world has no energy in the first place -- what they need is food and clean water.
There are so many little things we could each be doing that added altogether would make a huge difference. Just simple things like not driving to Walgreens. :) Or Videorama :) Turning off the lights in the rooms you are not in......
I heard some interesting stuff yesterday about behavior change as it relates to energy efficiency and climate change....I'll tell you about it tonight!
Thanks for sharing!