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- havokzero, on 07/04/2008, -3/+15I lost all respect for the article after reading the first "tip". Stay home and watch life pass me by? No thank you. I'm going to see the world, even if it sometimes means that I'll be leaving a carbon footprint. It won't be long before the airline industry is forced to adopt fuel efficient (or better yet, electric) aircraft technology, but I certainly don't plan on waiting for that day to come. Leave your home and introduce your boob tube to Mister Chainsaw, and live your life to its fullest.
- alapoet, on 07/03/2008, -5/+13Great tips, especially for guilty schlubs like me!
- phorty40, on 07/05/2008, -3/+10i may be the first to say it but certantly not the first to think it ,
this is a dumb list. - SomeImagination, on 07/05/2008, -0/+7"Replacing your desktop and monitor with an efficient laptop that displays the Energy Star logo, and setting it to go to sleep when you're not using it, can save about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide every year"
Why not just turn it off if your not using it?... - atmenterprises, on 07/05/2008, -2/+813. Turn off the computer?
- blanketfury, on 07/05/2008, -4/+9I'll just listen to a genuine role model like Al Gore.
I heard his carbon footprint is quite low:
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDes ... - redcolumbine, on 07/05/2008, -1/+5The dishwashing one is a surprise.
- Sanduu, on 07/04/2008, -1/+4I do care for the environment, but, unfortunately, sometimes I'm to lazy to do anything to help it.
- carpespasm, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3I'd consider myself pretty environmentally conscious, but why would I take your private property? I'm seriously asking. I'd be more angry at the likes of homeowners associations and city ordinances that prevent people from putting solar panels and wind generators on the roofs of their own homes.
- phorty40, on 07/05/2008, -1/+4ill do it if you do it first.
- arjie, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3I'm curious, why would he need both to be on for that? Surely he can just hook his laptop into the local network when he's at work? I mean, what about one of his computers is making it unable to perform the function of receiving a message that the other can?
- monsterette, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2yep...that is helpful too...very good!
- Ford_Prefect2nd, on 07/05/2008, -2/+4My roomate insists on having both his desktop and laptop running well he is at work, in case someone should message him. I admit the house runs a media/download machine, but we worked to get all the HD's into one box to cut down on power, it drives me nuts that he won't make the smallest of sacrifices and he claims to care about global warming, arg. This is why I think we're screwed, even many of those who believe in global warming won't do ***** to stop it if its inconvenient.
- arjie, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2What I want to know is if the whole process of building a 42' sailboat is very environmentally unfriendly. I like sailing.
- 007brendan, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Somewhat right, but you have the incentives all wrong. It has to be seen as more of a property rights issue, than a government morality issue. No one should be able to pollute my property, and if so, I should be able to sue them for compensation. I lived fairly close to a coal plant and you could see the pollution right in front of you, but there was nothing you could do but call the EPA, and maybe they would get around to doing a study. Screw the EPA, let the courts handle it. If energy companies were faced with lawsuits, pollution in the U.S. would virtually disappear, and the people would be richer because of it. Of course, energy prices would probably double or triple instantly, but that just reflects that actual cost of creating the energy and disposing of the pollution properly, which should have been done all along. If coal and oil energy costs doubled or tripled, and not because of subjective government taxes, which would basically tax oil companies to be just slightly more competitive than any other alternative energy source, you'd see plenty of competing alternative energy sources pop up, without any government intervention. Other countries like China would still pollute like crazy, but with a market in the U.S. for alternative fuels, eventually a technology will emerge that can produce incredible amounts of energy at low cost, and then countries all around the world would be falling over themselves to buy it from the U.S.
- anders72, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Using the cruise control when driving is actually a bad idea to save fuel unless the road is very flat with very few hills.
- 007brendan, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Easy to implement in that most of the tips require you to just buy new stuff. What about your old stuff? What happens to your old desktop? Your old car? Wasted resources basically.
- PostalBean, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1The article sounds interesting but I was too lazy to read it.
- clip9, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Your completely right. I see you getting dugg down. Not very surprising :( The public is brainwashed. How many resources must we waste on environmentalism before they realize?
- unpolloloco, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1interesting idea - I'd worry that we'd be driving (even more) industry out of the country. If there's a manufacturing plant that releases 10 tons of CO2 in a day (a pretty minuscule amount), and all of the citizens of the US sue it for punitive damages for global warming, it'll shut down US industry completely. I think the big problem with that approach is quantifying the damages that the coal plant is making and figuring out a way to prevent people from seeking punitive damages. What do you think?
- 007brendan, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Alright, I'll sum up these so-called "tips" for you:
1. Don't take international flights.
2. Hire someone else to make your home more environmentally-friendly.
3. Tell your boss that you are now working from home.
4. Buy a new car with better gas mileage.
5. Make sure to get the Cruise Control option.
6. Don't use hot water.
7. Buy a dishwasher.
8. Buy a laptop.
9. Don't buy bottled water.
10. Get married and don't divorce.
11. Only buy Carbon Offsets from our company, Climate Trust.
12. Levy taxes upon yourself, based upon subjective government assessments of "greenliness". - inactive, on 07/05/2008, -2/+3Wonderful suggestions even for the person who isnt a radical environmentalist but is concerned about the future of our planet. Easy to implement while not changing ones life too greatly.
I do like the work from home idea-wonder how I can get my boss to go for it. - Ford_Prefect2nd, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1I have no clue, I've asked him to do it, over and over and he refuses... that's what makes me crazy about it, the laptop is lower powered, its a bloody macbook air, the desktop about 700w... that's my problem, even many people who care about the environment are unwilling to make even sensical changes.
- unpolloloco, on 07/05/2008, -1/+2If everyone in the US did all of these steps, it would maybe cut down energy consumption by maybe 10%. The increasing pollution from China (and other developing nations) will more than eat that up in 1-2 years. I say try to cut back on energy usage for sustainability reasons and pollution so that people don't die from respiratory illnesses and so that we don't kill off too many ecosystems from runoff. To do anything more would cause more human suffering than it would prevent.
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -1/+1it's a stupid concept to begin with, with an even stupider list of how to be a pseudo-environmentalist.
- atmenterprises, on 07/05/2008, -1/+1I'm not an environmentalist, sorry.
- whorunbartertwn, on 07/05/2008, -3/+3Easy = Live in a smaller place. So many people have 4 or 5 bedroom homes that they don't need, then have to spend the money to fill them up, keep them warm/cool, more property taxes, more maintenance/upkeep costs etc.
Buy a two bedroom townhome, get rid of the extra stuff... you'll probably find it to be quite liberating, especially when someone is coming over and you see how fast you can clean it. - 007brendan, on 07/05/2008, -1/+1Global warming as a human-created catastrophe is a farce. Global temperatures have been rising since the last ice age. We've been burning fossil fuels for centuries, and we've already burnt about half of the worlds current supply and what has that equated to so far? Global temperatures have actually started to decrease since the 1980s. Al Gore and the Global Climate Scientists even acknowledged it in their report, but basically just glossed over it as an anomaly in the data, the same data that their whole argument stems on! That more CO2 equals world annihilation. While there are definitely many arguments for stopping environment unfriendly human actions (most of them relate to water pollution, which is definitely human created, and is bad for all living things), Global Warming is not one of them.
- earthshine2112, on 07/10/2008, -0/+0The sky is falling.....Don't pollute--hold your breath!
- TheCure, on 07/05/2008, -2/+1Anyone misread this as "Armchair Evangelist"?
- lead2thehead, on 07/05/2008, -2/+1"Hire Someone to Seal Up Your House"
Does this guy realize how much that would cost? You can't just "seal up" old windows unless you never plan on opening them again. Replacing every window in your house is easily $10,000. And ripping off all of your siding to replace your insulation would be double that amount. - s0m31john, on 07/05/2008, -7/+6I can take others rights to private property, environmentalists like to do that.
- DietMountainDew, on 07/05/2008, -3/+1http://www.rd.com/content/printContent.do?contentI ...
- monsterette, on 07/05/2008, -3/+1....agreed! We can still live, enjoy life, and still support efforts to be an environmentalist...but, to each his own.
- nixfu, on 07/05/2008, -9/+6Human produced CO2(3% of total) is NOT the cause of global warming.
FAIL.
These socialists should just give up the CO2/Carbon is bad crap....Why can't people see that the market forces will naturally correct things when the cost of fossil fuels gets uber expensive.
We will spend all this time wasting efforts and resources that we could put to better use for problems we have right now.
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