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Originally Posted by Mr.Lucifer  Norway. I believe we're a couple of years ahead of being comitted. We have come to the point where are our government is CO2 fanatics and spends "all" our tax money on it. |
I'm not gonna go into any detail here because i can't pretend that i know anything about Norways tax spending. What I can say is that that kind of responce is typical of people who expect imediate results. I can think of examples in britain where foreign aid busaries were heavily critisized (saying we spend too much abroad) when in comparrision to poorer contries we contribute far lower percentage of our wealth. So if your gonna use that kind of argument present some figures.
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If they plant banana trees they get food AND less CO2. Also my country alone could pay 160256 africans (assuming they work 40 hours a week 52 weeks a year, which is more than what those lazy africans probably will) with our annual "anti-CO2" spending. We are less than 5 million. You in England are 60 million. If you contribute equally as much as us you can pay 1923076 africans. Assuming I didn't click wrong on the calculator 2 million africans can work for 12$ an hour with planting banana trees. The only charities are England and Norway.
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"Lazy Africans". BOLLOCKS. That just highlights the arogance of your aguments. Blatent arogant and generalised statements like that with no basis in fact have no place in what we call "serious discussion".
This idea has already been considered and is a very dangerous one. remember that plants and trees only convert CO2 into Oxygen some of the time (typically when they have a good source of light) The rest of the time they produce CO2.
This is called creating a CO2 "sink" and what can actually happen is the area becomes saturated with CO2 and contributes to Global warming. Reasons such as this have caused it to be less heavily persued. Thats why the primary factor is to reduce our CO2 emmissions and combine it with other methods.
Plant trees to reduce global warming