I am so sick of hearing about the "Carbon Footprint" of everything.  Our
Vanagons have one.  You have one, I have one, everything has one.  That
is because everything that does anything needs energy to do it.  If I
was a rock I would have no carbon footprint.  But then I would be a rock
and I wouldn't care.  But I am a human.  No matter how many
technological advances are made, I am made to intake oxygen and expel
carbon dioxide.  I hate that this is now classified as a pollutant!
It makes me feel like I am some type of interloper on my own planet.  If
a planet would need to be devoid of life in order to have the smallest
"Carbon Footprint" possible then what is the point?

And the people who are so worried about our "Carbon Footprint" fly
around the world having conferences and meetings to reduce global
warming emissions.  They use energy to do this and they chop down trees
printing their carbon emission reduction literature to give out at their
meetings.  I think it is a farce at best, a huge swindle at worst.  The
amount of carbon dioxide we are talking about is less than a tenth of 1
percent of all of the "carbon emissions" that are being put in the
atmosphere.  The rest occurs through natural events.  Decaying wood in
the forests of the world gives off more carbon emissions.  Let's stop
trees from dying, that will be more effective.  I know how to do that,
let's make more carbon emissions because that is what trees breathe in
(carbon dioxide).  So I say who cares what my carbon footprint is.  If
my electric bill is too high, or my gas bill is too high, or it costs a
bunch of money to drive my van, then I will have to cut back on these
things and conserve.  These are normal market forces and that is the way
it should be.  Worrying about how much carbon was created by the farmer
in New Zealand who grew the apple you are eating as you read this is
just plain nuts!

Sorry I just had to blow off some carbon :-)
Remember Y2K!

Have a great Friday,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com