America’s Carbon Footprint

I like the map so much that I will use it as wallpaper. Nice article Ned.

The problem is NOT carbon dioxide (CO2) It’s carbon monoxide!!! Regulating CO2 will do noting to help “save the planet.” How can cap and trade carbon taxes help our economy? (While at the same time allowing corporations to buy “carbon offsetts”, as in re-buying the right to pollute!) Why would we give our competitors (China, India, and the rest of the developing world) yet ANOTHER unfair advantage to go with our already micromanaged “free trade” deals, that allow those countries to make money and record profits, while we’re closing factories, losing jobs, and coming up with new and more interesting regulations and taxes along the way to keep it that way. This propaganda is set out to destroy our economy and our industrial base to the point where we are wholly dependent on foriegn trade and so-called “non-governmential organizations” to tell us what we can and cannot do with OUR OWN LAND! If you want a foriegn corporate enitity to tell you how you can live your life be it what job you have, kind of car you can drive, and what products you are allowed to use; By all means support this pathetic corporate power grab. But if you care for your neighborhood, family, and quality of life for your children and their children, you will dig a little deeper than the surface and wake up to this manipulate farce of a politcal agenda. Don’t believe me, look up Agenda 21, UN Global Biodiversity Assesment. And you will see where this road leads. Don’t be afraid, be INFORMED!!! The truth will set you free..

Live simpler. Consumer less. Drive less. Have few or no children. The problem is that every wants everything they can get NOW, forget the future. People erroneously blame the government for not having enough regulations in place, when it’s really their own lives that are doing this. Just cut back for cripes sake….

No wonder it is still cold in Montana! Actually, the CO2 spreads out and becomes homgeneous in the atmosphere fairly quickly, although emissions in the northern hemisphere are fast enough to maintain a slight difference in CO2 concentrations between Hawaii and Antarctica.

Notice how the pollution is worse where the population density is highest? That should tell us something. People pollute. More people = more pollution. Fewer people = less pollution. That concept might not make me richer of get me a Nobel Prize, but it’s fact. Think about it next time you see a family with 17 kids. Each on of them will grow up, buy a gas burning car, use electricity, create pollution and have 17 more kids to do the same thing.
As long as population continues to grow there is no way to control pollution levels or decrease use of resources. Can’t be done, sorry, no way, ain’t happenin.

Ok, so now we know more people live on the coasts than in the middle of the country. What did you expect? I hope you didn’t spend any of my tax monies on this. Glad to see that the holier than thou West Coast is just as bad a we are in in Miami! Also, where is the map comparing us to the rest of the world (i.e. CHINA)?

For all those who think having fewer or no children is the answer, how will we then have a future workforce to support all those social program? how will we care for our senior citizens? Remember, before the industrial revolution, people needed to have as many children as they could to farm their land just to feed themselves. Technology and industrialization have freed us to have fewer children.

we used to be such a smart nation. We’ve become a nation of idiots. We’ve become a nation of suckers that P.T. Barnum used to laugh at. Carbon Footprint? Who cares? It’s truly all junk talk.

The Memphis label is actually correct. It is in the same position relative to the city as Rochester, New York. The only error I see is the two Phoenix labels, and that hardly seems enough to condemn the whole project.

Andy Clark
It makes it easier to talk if you do.

Rochelle
National Geographic – map section

mp — Cut social programs, save your money, and be a little more self sufficient. The only reason to have large families is self glorification.

Yea, nothing new here. But I’m still unconvinced of Global Warming caused solely by humans. I believed it about 6 months ago though. Earth has natural cooling and warming cycles folks. That doesn’t mean we can keep crapping on the planet though. We’ve been horrid stewards of this world. Change is needed. If the whole Global Warming scare works, I’m all for it.

Southernfarmer – A one-year change cannot reverse a century-long trend. It doesn’t work that way, by definition. The only way to predict the future is through models, and we have every reason to believe that the temperature will continue upward. I hope it doesn’t, though.

Ed – Gore raised the awareness of an entire planet. I’m glad he’s not president – he’s got more important business to tend to.

So the Blue States are again the cause of the problem with their highest amounts. The Red States seem to be much much cleaner. Imagine that.
So then these hypocrites want me to worry when in my section of the map is nothing. Clean up your own backyard before you worry about mine.