Are you bothered about your carbon footprint

Are you bothered about your car, your log burner, what companies do etc.., how much electric you use, and so on.

More importantly, if you are really bothered, what part of the climate saving advice do you actually undertake yourself and changed the way you carbon live?

I'll start. I'm not bothered, I carry on as usual.

 

My carbon footprint in pretty small. My wife and I drive maybe 14,000 miles a year. I have not flown on a plane in two years. I have a grill, and naturally I use electricity.

I don’t take the climate alarmists seriously because they don’t take it seriously. John Kerry fillies around in his private jet. Ditto for Al Gore. If they were serious, they would support interim measures like carbon capture and look at nuclear energy. All their solutions center on more government, regulation and control. Growing government is their goal, not the climate.

 

Humanity is doomed anyways. I know this since lord Greta the savior tweeted as such based off of the research by one of Earf's top scientist!

https://web.archive.org/web/20180501150731/https://gritpost.com/humans-extinct-climate-change/

"A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years."



Welp. We have 4 days to stop using fossil fuels all together! I don't think that's gonna happen so enjoy the ride boys! We had a good run!

 

No.... I am not at all bothered by my carbon footprint.........

Bill Gates and Al Gore are controlling the narrative.........

They are not correct at all........ carbon dioxide is plant food......
www.BankingSystemsFlaws.blogspot.ca

 

Not bothered by that hysterical fraud at all.

 

I am not really sure how to answer the poll exactly. I do try to limit my electrical use some, but that is more because that keeps more money in my pocket. I do recycle but am not super religious about it. That is partly because my city limits what plastics it accepts (1's and 2's only). I compost a lot of things, but don't bend over backwards to compost or recycle every single scrap of paper. I do lots of things that collectively lower my footprint, but that is not why I do them. For instance, I don't eat a lot of meat. I have it regularly but not a lot at once. I am more vegetable forward I guess. I have been systematically editing/adding to my landscape to make it more creature friendly which is environmental I guess, but I am not doing it to "reduce carbon". I do it because I think we should do more to co-exist with nature, especially in urban settings. I grow a lot of vegetables, harvest rain water, use a clothesline when the weather is favorable, but that goes back to the being frugal, not to stop climate change. I have been adding in more "permaculture" to my property--fruit trees and bushes, sunchokes, horseradish, asparagus, salsify, and other edible perennials. I mow my grass as little as possible to not get the warnings and fines that come with weed ordinance violations. I buy energy efficient appliances when I can. A lot of the furniture in my house is used and just about all of the dishware/kitchen stuff is but most of that came from relatives or their estate.

 

If we were smart, we'd be pumping out as much CO2 as we possibly could while irrigating the deserts and immigrating away from the coastlines. CO2 makes plants more efficient and use less water. Global warming will thaw out the parts of the planet currently too cold to farm. At current rates we could be settling a partially thawed Antarctica in 200 years. We should be aiming for sooner than that. But instead we're trying to be more like Mars...

 

You're probably just, "A little bit"

 

I have never thought about carbon footprints. I'd rather think about having breakfast.

 

I was at a Green Party zoom meeting and subscribed,

They want large numbers of people from Central America to immigrate into the US
and share our standard of living with a much bigger carbon footprint.

I wrote to an officer about this apparent contradiction,
got no reply and eventually unsubscribed.

 

Trying to find common sense in politics is a challenge.

 

Carbon Dioxide is plant food, but like most everything else, being one thing does not mean it isn't another too. Carbon Dioxide is a greenhouse gas AND encourages plant growth. However, we as human beings don't encourage plant growth. We've deforested a healthy amount of this planet. Lots of plant food with less plants to actually eat it just leads to more and more build up which allows carbon dioxide to perform another of it's functions, aside from being plant food.

Plants need water to survive too, but too much of that and the plant and humanity both suffer as well.

 

Well said.....
I admit that I am biased but I do believe that the next nine years will be a time when we will begin to value our forests much more highly.

I take what near death experiencers are shown about the future rather seriously.... but most people don't yet. So I admit that I am biased. Mellen Benedict's near death experience was back in 1982.


https://near-death.com/mellen-thomas-benedict/

 

Raising livestock for food produces more greenhouse gases than cars. I eat a Vegan diet and drive a 4X4 diesel.

 

Did you know, such things as avocados are flown and shipped around the planet causing greater pollution.

 

Yes. The same is true for most produce. The farmers market has a great selection on locally grown, organic produce.

Buying imported avocados also funds cartels.

 

If I was Chinese, I might have answered "yes", but being an American the answer is HELL, NO.

Here's an informative link about who is spewing carbon emissions from coal plants: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160... equivalent of about,in 2022 compared to 2021.

 

China knows that renewables are a fad

 

And it also causes a lot of deforestation. As the vegans gullibly? believe they're saving the planet from farting cows, they're causing more damage due to deforestation and pollution with fruit and veg demand and transportation.

 

The 20% ethanol certainly is causing damage but part of the vegan idea is also to eat local.

 

Eating local is more eco-friendly than going vegan -

https://www.independent.co.uk/20-pl...ish-vegan-veganuary-environment-a9343296.html

 

Not in the slightest.

 

I eat as much as I can from my property. What others do is up to then.

 

I voted not at all, because it certainly doesn't keep me up at night. I try to put trash where it belongs, recycle, not buy more than I can use. I mean, seriously what more can you do? The rest is in God's hands right? You just do the best you can.

 

The people who think that the Chinese Communists have the ideal economic and environmentally friendly, carbon reduction system are misinformed and delusional. They are producing green energy products, with coal fired plants, because the environmental extremists advocate policies that force us to buy them. When I hear the left say, China is way ahead of us with respect to green, renewable energy, I can only chuckle.