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Re: Carbon Offsets - The Great Debate

Re: Carbon Offsets - The Great Debate

Submitted by ctyankee on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 09:11.

Your casual poll certainly confirms that two of the most dangerous states of mind are: Ignorance & Apathy.  More commonly known as "I don't know, and I don't care."

It's sad that so many folks wear that little phrase as a badge of honor.  Like when people say: "That's OK, I'm not good at math."  Makes me angry enough to perform a ritual killing...  Right there, on the spot, for the good of mankind!

I remember on old joke about how COBOL was destroying the climate, it picks on silly statements like "ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL" as opposed to the terse C statement "n+=1;" and discussed the rolling pallet sized print-outs the boys from MIS would bring up in elevators after an all night print job.  And how some "programmer" would flip through the reams of paper...  He'd find and circle one line in about 250lbs of wide green-bar, and then label the whole cart "BURN OR SHRED TO DISCARD". 

Anybody else ever set foot in that department???

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Carbon Offsets - The Great Debate By: Greendeavor.com (9 replies) Tue, 05/22/2007 - 15:29