20080521 My Carbon overview from DOPPLR
Originally uploaded by watzPersonal carbon offsets are gonna look kinda twee and silly once we have gigantic, collective programs to drain carbon out of the sky. It's not about the personal emissions of the living – we gotta remove the emissions that have been hanging over our heads since World War One.
It's gonna take people a while to realize that we've got to forget "footprints" and live in a less-than-zero carbon handprint. But we'll get to that realization, because there's no other choice. This kinda stuff pretends that removing pollution is a personal, moral choice. It isn't. It isn't any more a personal moral choice than some monster Greenhouse firestorm threatening to incinerate San Diego.
