Posted on 04/22/2013 6:35:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Leilani Munter, a race car driver, environmental activist and self-described eco-athlete was featured on the Environmental Protection Agencys Earth Day website in a video promoting bike riding, using public transportation and veganism.
Im aware of the carbon footprint of my race car and my lifestyle, Munter said in the video. For every race Im in, I adopt an acre of rainforest to offset my effect on the environment.
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It’s probably something like what these folks do:
http://adopt.nature.org/faq.html
Basically, people donate, they use the donation money to buy plots of land in areas considered vulnerable - which probably means those that might get developed (deforested, etc.), and they keep ownership of that land to prevent such development.
As a biologist, I’m not sure if that’s quite enough to offset the carbon emissions of a race car, in that you’re right - the trees were already there, she’s just paying so they stay there.
If you adopt an acre of rainforest, can you claim it as a dependent on your 1040?
Since we got eight inches of snow on Earth Day, I invite this young lady to drive past the burning tires in my driveway, in the hopes they’ll bring on some desperately needed ‘global warming’.
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