Editorial: Carbon-reduction plan a step forward

San Jose Mercury News ^ | 5/27/2007 | Anon

[hermgem]

We also can go for carbon offsets similar to Al Gore with his monthly $33,000 energy bill for his house.
Such carbon offsets can start with one of the most wasteful items that cause felling of millions of trees per year worldwide, the erosion of land, depriving wild animals of their habitats.
Newspapers, yes newspapers, which draw in all those wood imports from as far away as China and Brazil for their raw material: paper.
It’s the best kept secret, but monumentally contributory to global warming.
Need a carbon offset: Cancel your paper subscription and go on the net for information.

[sionnsar]

If California wants to achieve its goal of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions 25 percent by 2020 to fight global warming,

California can do it much more easily than that. Just keep jacking up the taxes until the population drops by 25% to 50%.

[xcamel]

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[JustDoItAlways]

Just noting that Transportation only accounts for 14% of GHG emissions (not 41% as quoted in the article).

Furthermore, passenger vehicles are only a small percentage of the Transportation sector’s emissions.

So don’t worry about your car. The solution to the (phony?) problem of global warming is not personal transportation. That is a red herring.