Do I personally feel responsible? Yes and no I guess. I want all the things that normal people want and what does it take? Cutting down forests, harmful chemicals and ruining wild life. I hate that life today demands this sort of destruction. I also think that global warming was eventually bound to happen sometime, it has in the past... humans just sped up the process probably by thousands of years, awesome job, humanity.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
food miles?
I think that posting the CO2 emissions on products is actually kind of stupid because Specter is right - you might actually produce more greenhouse gasses preparing the food than it took to get them into the store. I can see how some people would think it would be useful though. Definitely we are in an era of "creative destruction". As I've said in a previous blog post, generations today want what they want when they want it, and we don't care how it comes or what it took to get it there... hence why our planet is going down the tube.
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i understand your view on the carbon labels but i feel maybe eventually people will get a bit embaressed when checking out at the counter and having all their labels reading HIGH CARBON PRODUCT. we live in a society where most people care what others think of them and that attribute we posses could be used in a positive way. people also like to brag and what better way than to brag about buying green products. i feel this label thing if atually put to work will serve best for housewifes because they're always trying to out do each other whether with clothing or SUV's. now they can do it by buying the right stuff. Its a little competition between themselves that is actually benefitting the earth.
ReplyDeleteI never thought of this. You have a good point!
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