Is carbon
trading a good idea, or is it a lie?
Many companies which are major polluters are planning to
use
Carbon Trading to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. This is a
complete confidence trick by the companies and their publicity department to
make the company look good to their customers and stock holders. Carbon
Trading is a lie.
Carbon Trading is a complex subject, but is often about planting trees and other offset methods
and is great for the
climate, plus it helps manage climate change.
But then to claim because they
have done some good they can now carry on polluting as before is ludicrous.
Pollution is pollution in any form, and must be reduced if the world is to
have a sustainable future.
The major polluters in India, China, Germany, America,
the UK and others must control the pollution caused by
coal fired power
stations and other coal fire processes.
Coal burning is deadly and produces
major greenhouse gases.
To manage and reduce the effects on Climate Change,
companies are going to have to spend money, which given the current "profit
at any price" focused mentality will not happen before it is too late. Laws
enforcing emission controls must be mandatory, with very heavy fines. If the
European Union can fine
Microsoft for not doing what it was told ( about
€900 million ) then the European Union can and should
enforce pollution controls on coal fired power stations to reduce Climate
Change and greenhouse gases.
The time for the general public to make their thoughts
known, is now. Remember, if you do nothing, and everybody else does nothing,
then in less than 50 years this world will be heading into a catastrophe
where there is no going back. How are you going to explain that to your
children. maybe there will no grandchildren to worry about.
Start
by posting your Carbon Trading views to the
Climate Change Forum and cast your
climate change vote, see Climate Poll in the menu bar.
