Carbon Offset?

What does it take to be carbon neutral? I guess it depends on what kind of lifestyle you lead. If you are an Al Gore type or Paris Hilton type then I guess it would take quite a bit of either changing your lifestyle which I doubt would happen or it will cost alot of money to even become carbon neutral.

Personally, I believe that the planet goes through cycles. There are warm periods and cold periods. If you take a look through the history of the planet you will see that the ice caps were much larger than they are now. Canada and most of the Northern United States was completely covered with ice and snow year round. Why do you think there are skeletons of Wholly Mammoths in western United States? Because it used to be cold.

Now I know that it would be arrogant of us to think that we have not influenced the environment at all since we have been around on this planet. But to portray us as having been the downfall of the earths environment.... that is a huge stretch.

To me, there is not enough evidence over a long enough period of time to accurately know what is the real cause or even if there is a cause per se. It very well may be the natural order of things.

But where does that leave us. What if it takes us a thousand years for us to have enough information to really know what the story is? That really does not help us now. If you listen to some they say that is not good enough and that we need to do something now to help the environment. Ok. I'll go with you on that. If you want to help, buy some long life light bulbs, stop drinking water out of a bottle and use a filter and filter your tap water and use the same container over and over again. Plant trees and bushes in your yards.

So if we do these things as a human race we will be doing our part in helping to reduce the bad evil air that we are putting into the atmosphere.
I think if the world goes through cycles there isn't a damn bit of anything that we can do to change what is going on. That is like trying to stop an earthquake, tornado, or hurricane from happening.

We have done some amazing things as a human race. Look at all of the things we have accomplished. But even to acknowledge all of those things, to say that we can change how the earth goes through its cycles is a little pompous of us.... Don't you think?



Stay Tuned...........