My Carbon Footprint! Part One

My carbon footprint is getting big!

There seems to be a lot of hoopla about the so called ‘carbon footprint’ lately. I rarely watch TV, but when I do it is usually the History Channell, National Geo, the Discovery Channels or the news channels. I have noticed that all my favorites are telling me how bad I am! How bad humanity is actually. Should I feel bad and give in to the propoganda and become my inner caveman?

So, just what is the ‘carbon footprint’? According to carbonfootprint.com it is : “A Carbon Footprint is a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide.” In laymans terms, it is everything that we use, eat, touch or think about. Think about? Yes, it is a matter of thought control! Example: I am thinking of buying a new motorhome that will spew tons of carbon into the atmosphere, BUT now I feel the carbon guilt! What am I doing to this planet by deriving pleasure from an item I want to buy? Maybe I should not buy it. Perhaps I should get a smaller, less comfortable motorhome. What will my neighbors think? Will people with their Prius’s pull me over in this motorhome and deride me on my callous purchase? My gosh, what should I do? So, now they have control over the thought process! Not mine of course, I will just buy a bigger motorhome to help make up for the poor guy that fell for this carbon footprint crap and didn’t get his!

Again, I hear some of the environmentalists, “you are a bad person, you hate the environment”, they are labeling me with every name they can come up with and making up some new ones! So, I stress again, I love the environment! I love the trees that built my home. I love the carbon that built my car. I love the land that gave way so I could have a road to drive on! I love this planet that provides me everything I have. I just don’t fall for unfounded nonsense that I am helping destroy the world! I feel I am much to insignificant to even play a small role in that destruction!

I live in the country. I have environment all around me. Trees, ponds, creeks, the whole nine yards. I derrive my living from the environment (agriculture) so I stand to lose more than most of these so called environmentalists if I destroy my environment. In reality, I am the TRUE environmentalist! Not is the sense of tying myself to a tree to save it, but in the sense of tying a chain around it to pull it down and build something with it. That is what the tree is there for!

Back on subject, sorry for the rant… I watched a program on Nat Geo last week called “Aftermath”. It perported to show what would happen to the earth if all the Humans suddenly dissappeared. I genarally like this type of show, even if it doesn’t have brain eating zombie’s! All started off well. “a planet controlled by powerful beings - us” is one of the lines the program started with. I should have known at that point where this was heading! In short, the show goes into detail of how much better the world would be without us. “without humans, animals are happy” , “without humans, the earth is happy” yada, yada the same crap the spews from all the human hating propoganda pieces!

My carbon footprint! Part Two (Coming Soon)