Carbon Belch Day
Anti-Social Darwinism
12-06-2008, 15:31
In response to all the "green" people in NS, I give you the answer to "green fundamentalism."
Help save the planet - pollute.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I simply can't, not won't, can't, do most of the things listed in this calculator.
http://www.carbonbelchday.com/calculator.asp
Barringtonia
12-06-2008, 16:08
A site run by Grassfire, set up pretty much specifically to help GWB in the 2004 election against John Kerry, by a public relations firm that specializes in 'swiftboating' opponents.
Dragontide
12-06-2008, 16:10
While I agree that carbon credits are a stupid idea that will solve nothing, waisting energy as a protest is even stupider! Maybe though as the number of greenies continues to grow, we can eventually make June 12th a "rough-it" day. (use as little or no energy at all) ;)
The Smiling Frogs
12-06-2008, 16:11
I gots all my old tires in a pile in the back 40 waiting to be set on fire!
Just kidding. I am having a bonfire that night but no tires are involved.
Conserative Morality
12-06-2008, 17:33
I like the message that this calculator sends out, but I'm a little worried about the smog in my town (Smog is unhealthy, as we all know) suddenly appearing because of my carbon "Belch"
Dragontide
12-06-2008, 17:41
There is another site somewhere (I'm not going to look it up) where you can buy the rights to a tree right before it is cut down. You get a t-shirt, club membership & whatnots. It's just Jackassism!
Pure Metal
12-06-2008, 18:11
wow, that was pretty retarded.
Mad hatters in jeans
12-06-2008, 18:12
Carbon Belch day sounds like too much effort to me, i'll stick with re-using old margarine tubs for leftover food.
Dragontide
12-06-2008, 18:19
Carbon Belch day sounds like too much effort to me, i'll stick with re-using old margarine tubs for leftover food.
Think I'll buy some hamburger meat since I cut Wal-Mart plastic bags up to keep patties separated before freezing! :D
Call to power
12-06-2008, 19:14
one day the hippies will rise up and they will remember my posts as they allow me to eat the Tofu crumbs on the floor :)
Your one-day Carbon Belch has been calculated at: 81 pounds of CO2.
Nice job! (The average American's belch is 41 pounds.)
I went to a barbecue today :(
I can understand not buying into the global climate change argument...but to purposely do all one can to maximize one's negative impact?
It's like two kids have toys, and when one says "mines better", the other says "nuh-uh" and breaks it.
In the very near future, people of this mindset will be shunned by the vast majority of society...and rightly so.
greed and death
13-06-2008, 06:32
I can understand not buying into the global climate change argument...but to purposely do all one can to maximize one's negative impact?
It's like two kids have toys, and when one says "mines better", the other says "nuh-uh" and breaks it.
In the very near future, people of this mindset will be shunned by the vast majority of society...and rightly so.
Nah they will just apply that mind set to something else like. Like saving the whales or dolphins or something.
Non Aligned States
13-06-2008, 06:32
I can understand not buying into the global climate change argument...but to purposely do all one can to maximize one's negative impact?
I propose we gather as much carbon emissions as possible, and dump it straight into these people's homes. It would be ironically amusing to see how much they advocate carbon emission increase while they choke on it.
CthulhuFhtagn
13-06-2008, 06:39
I can understand not buying into the global climate change argument...but to purposely do all one can to maximize one's negative impact?
It's like two kids have toys, and when one says "mines better", the other says "nuh-uh" and breaks it.
In the very near future, people of this mindset will be shunned by the vast majority of society...and rightly so.
In the old days, we killed people like that. No one cared.
Nobel Hobos
13-06-2008, 06:49
They didn't put a lot of thought into this.
How Carbon Belch Debits Work
Here’s how it works. For a gift of $10 to help Grassfire.org -- the sponsor of Carbon Belch Day -- with this and other efforts, you can fund a “Carbon Belch Debit” (CBD). With that $10, Grassfire.org will run banner ads and other internet efforts to get more people involved in this campaign to save the planet and expand other efforts. We estimate that each $10 Carbon Belch Debit (CBD) will allow us to reach about 1,000 people through Drudge Report ads and other efforts.*
If they'd said something like "for every $10 you give us, we pledge to spend $5 on brown coal which we will burn for no reason at all. This will have the exact opposite effect to a Carbon Credits, ie NONE ha ha" then the joke would work.
Fails, even as a joke. Hopefully, fails as a fundraiser for Grassfire too.
*burns plastic chair*
Woot!