It’s my own fault really. If I hadn’t gone and done that Social Science course with the Open University I would have continued to be blissfully ignorant of the damage that the human race continues to do to its own home.
Scientific and political consensus is coalescing around the need to reduce climate change emissions by about 60% over the coming 30 – 50 years. Later this century, we will likely find new technologies to help tame climate change – probably based on hydrogen power and nuclear fusion, supported by nanotechnology applications.
However – right now – emissions are actually growing at their fastest rate ever. Regulatory responses such as the Kyoto Protocol and the European Union’s Emission Trading Scheme are a start. But in the short term, irreversible damage will surely occur in the most vulnerable areas of our planet.This concern now plagues me daily and whilst I know that I should be more active in making the world a little more careful, I thought that the best place to begin change is at home. So I wandered upon the carbonneutral site.
The site includes a CO2 calculator to help you work out your emissions. Once you have done that, the site offers plenty of ways to neutralise your emissions by planting new trees, dedicating trees to people, you name it.
So, my plan is to work out how much CO2 I am generating, and neutralise it through the planting of trees. Could be cool, could be expensive, could be too expensive but in my eternal quest to reach the pinnacle of Maslow’s triangle, it may bring me one step up the ladder of self-actualisation. Watch this space.
Carbon Neutrality - it’s the new black!
