The Green Scam

Is anyone seriously considering this carbon credit or carbon offsets BS? It sounds great on the outside but the more I read it the more I realize it is just another way for private citizens and corporations to shirk their duties to mother earth! Picture if you will a typical family of four. This family of four uses two automobiles, flies commercial airlines, still has a "real" fireplace and uses other energy sources that emit carbon into the atmosphere. So some intellectual came up with a system or formula that can tell us how much carbon a typical family of four can safely emit each month. For arguments sake let's say that it is 100 tons of carbon each month for a family of four. Well this specific family only puts out 80 tons of carbon. Therefore there are 20 less tons of carbon going into our atmosphere. Sounds like a first step towards quelling the global warming hysteria.

However, certain people who are supposed to be the beacon of light for the underprivileged and who's new life goal is to lower the world's carbon consumption are screwing us two-fold. Specifically I am talking about the great humanitarian Al Gore. Until two days ago I was starting to really believe that Al Gore cared about me and my family and the future of Mother Earth despite his predilection for hysteria and sensationalism. Well slap me twice and call me Sally, he's a career politician, pig, lying bastard just like the rest of them in Washington. Let me explain:

Al Gore is a chairman of a company called Generation Investment Management and this company sells carbon offsets to businesses and private citizens as well. Al Gore buys his carbon offsets from this company. So he can simply put 20 times more carbon into the atmosphere that a normal family of four because he buys other peoples carbon emissions from himself. What a crooked bastard who has half of the world bamboozled by his sensational, Michael Moore-esque babble!

And I have heard the argument that he is on the "GREEN" plan in Tennessee which costs more but uses renewable resources like wind, water and solar power instead of fossil fuels! This has just not been proven to me nor did any of the Al Gore worshipping newspapers discuss "the green plan".

And one more thing, we all remember learning about Catholicism and Martin Luther, etc. Well one of the main reasons why Martin Luther left the church was because of JoHann Tetzel who was offering forgiveness for your sins if you would simply give him money (the church) money! So essentially Al Gore is paying off the global warming papacy, himself, so he can feel better about polluting our environment by 20% more than most humans!

Believe me I think it would be great if we could reduce the carbon emissions, not because I am a global warming freak but because that would lessen our dependency on foreign oil and put us one step ahead of the global economy! Wind, water, solar, these are all energy sources that current technology suggests will not have an effect on the atmosphere like fossil fuels and best of all we would not have to rely on other countries for these resources. In fact we would most likely lead the world into global consumption of these renewable resources. But Al Gore buying carbon offsets is like Tipper Gore going purchasing music from 2 Live Crew and Dee Snider, it's a mockery and hypocritical!

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