Carbon Footprint

Is it just me, or has the whole world gone completely moggy around the "Carbon emmission" issue?
I mean, to accuse someone of being insensitive to this issue because they have the audacity to own their own Jumbo jet, and fly solo to various locations around the world? Oh Please... don't you think it's more a case of sour grapes?

Surely, the amount of carbon generated by the space shuttle on one single blast off is 100 times more than a single Atlantic crossing by a jumbo? What about the amount of carbon emmited by crematoriums / war zones / cooking fires.... it's a load of crock.

I think this issue has a hidden agenda. I think someone somewhere has found an alternative to something which is in daily use, and this is the introduction to a total ban on this thing, with a view to total world domination with the new / as yet unreleased product.

What am I talking about? Well, water driven motorcars, advanced / affordable / efficient solar power, maybe an alien source of power, discovered on some distant planet, and currently being harnassed and imported (can you import from another planet) by the Americans??

I don't know the answer, but I do think that too much is being made of this.

What I do know is that our insistence to intervene with nature is the basis for much of our problems today. How many people would not be alive if it wasn't for intervention? And I'm not talking about healthy, working people, but rather those unfortunate enough to be born with such severe defects that in the "old world" they would naturally not have survived?

Now before you start to trash me on this though, it's only a thought! It's not my belief that these people should be allowed to die, but the reality is that in the real world only the fittest / strongest would survive. Not so in the human world. Is this why we are "disappearing" Is this why we are losing the battle with ourselves? Think about it? More and more diseases / birth defects, more sensitivity to ideals and issues which only a few years ago would have been a NO-No, more pathetic. Are we creating our own downfall due to this situation? I don't know, just asking.

My son's pants have a nice mark where I booted him on the butt after having stomped out a fire he had started. Thats my Carbon Footprint!

Salagatle!