I am boycotting any company offering me a BS carbon offset (CO) product. This CO stuff has gone beyond stupid; the other day I saw a rather lengthy commercial for CO car insurance, WTF!
Give me a break... I'm not going to go in to detail on this public medium as I may want to enter an "environmentally conscious" country one day, but there is a concerted effort to push an agenda that is not entirely what it portrays to be.
Don't get me wrong I love the planet more than most and I do everything I can to conserve fuel, electricity, I recycle and I'm against carbon fuels (oil maybe abiotic) for transportation.
CO products have no positive impact on society except to make the consumer feel expunged from polluting. In a world where I have no option but to buy a combustion engine cars, trying to sell me CO car insurance is an insult to my intelligence.
So I'm boycotting CO products BUT I will personally go out of my way to support/endorse products which in some way aid scientific research in to alternative energy sources.
If I ruled I would:
- Encourage electric car production using Fuel Cell and current battery tech.
- Develop geothermal energy... drill a hole far enough into the ground and it gets hot; hot = energy; ground = everywhere... why is this so hard for people to understand?
- 1/2 military expenditure, and spend the surplus on alternative engery research. International treaty to 1/2 military expenditure would be preferable.
- 1% tax on all domestic, 2%foreign financial transactions.
There the above will give any government more than enough money to plant enough trees to make all car insurance carbon nuetral.