[Vision2020] US Per Capita Leaking of CO2 into Atmosphere: 19.18 Tons, 2008

[Jay Borden]

"If a corporation dumped 19 tons of oil into the Snake River, they'd
make headlines and be attacked, etc."



Does this mean that you are taking the stance of "1 ton of CO2 in the
atmosphere is just as harmful to the environment as 1 ton of oil?"

 

 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Ted Moffett
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 5:16 PM
To: Donovan Arnold
Cc: Moscow Vision 2020
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] US Per Capita Leaking of CO2 into Atmosphere:
19.18 Tons, 2008

 

Perhaps you could contract with ExxonMobil or British Petroleum to patch
their oil leaks... Duct tape is remarkably multi-purpose...

 

I used the word "leaks" to describe human sourced CO2 emissions
(primarily from fossil fuels, not breathing, of course) because a leak
is something that is not supposed to happen, as with oil leaks like the
one polluting the Yellowstone river... 

 

Yet most people it appears do not think of the CO2 coming out of their
tailpipe, or out of a coal fired plant supplying their electricity,  as
a polluting "leak" into the atmosphere, that induces the same degree of
alarm and demands for action to prevent such disasters, as a large oil
leak into a river or the ocean...

 

Yet global ocean acidification from human CO2 emissions, along with
species compromising climate change, potentially could be more of a
threat to life in the oceans and on land, than oil pollution from leaks,
though these oil spill disasters, such as the Exxon Valdez or the BP
gulf well explosion, are locally very damaging.

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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Donovan Arnold
<donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

I'll get some duct tape and stop my CO2 leaking right away!

 

Donovan Arnold

--- On Sun, 7/3/11, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:

	
	From: Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com>
	Subject: [Vision2020] US Per Capita Leaking of CO2 into
Atmosphere: 19.18 Tons, 2008
	To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
	Cc: "Friends of the Clearwater" <foc at friendsoftheclearwater.org>
	Date: Sunday, July 3, 2011, 3:11 PM

	US per capita leaking of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2008, 19.18
tons:
	
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/each-co
untrys-share-of-co2.html
	
	That means you, I, everyone in the US, on average due to our
economy
	and lifestyle, dumping 19 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, with
annual
	amounts close to this figure, year after year.
	
	If a corporation dumped 19 tons of oil into the Snake River,
they'd
	make headlines and be attacked, etc.
	
	Yet despite the science indicating CO2 is inducing potentially
	catastrophic climate change, which includes CO2 polluting the
Earth's
	oceans via the process of ocean acidification, most people
accept this
	massive dumping into the atmosphere as though it were an open
sewer,
	with a curious lack of urgency.
	
	The US Supreme Court has ruled the EPA can regulate CO2 as a
pollutant
	( Supreme Court Upholds EPA's Authority to Regulate Carbon
Dioxide:
	WASHINGTON, DC, June 20, 2011 (ENS)
	http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2011/2011-06-20-03.html ),
yet
	opposition to both the EPA's authority to enforce such
regulations,
	and US Congressional legislation to regulate CO2, is formidable:
	
	Tuesday, June 7, 2011
	Media Matters: Opponents of EPA Climate Action Dominate TV News
	Airwaves -- only scientist interviewed was Patrick Michaels,
noted
	liar before Congress:
	
http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2011/06/media-matters-oppone
nts-of-epa-climate.html
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	Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

 

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