The idea that you can fly around the world and offset your carbon emissions by buying trees is really quite lazy, short-sighted, narcissistic, and retarded.
For starters, the trees are already there. Since you’re emitting more carbon, you will need more trees to act as a carbon sink. If you plant more trees, the trees will need to stay put for a good 50 years at least, and as soon as they come down the carbon is released all over again anyway. Oh, and did you know that if the Earth continues to heat up due to too much carbon in the atmosphere, the permafrost in Siberia and elsewhere will melt, all that methane in the underlying vegetation will be released into the atmosphere, and the Earth will be fucked? Yeah … the only way to not screw our habitat, the Earth, is to become conscious and not just carry on living like we are.
WHY ARE PEOPLE NOT LISTENING?
You know what fucks up the Earth, so stop doing it, you retards!
And to all you militant vegans who think you're doing the world a favour by eating and drinking imported soy and not eating animal products: you're actually fucking over entire ecosystems in the Amazon and other such places by funding soy crops. Most of these are on land where rainforests used to be. Plus, the beans are grown in one place, shipped to another place, processed, sent elsewhere, packaged, and then shipped to us. Talk about carbon emissions! Oh, and the cartons the soy milk comes in are not recyclable in Dunedin, so soy is just plain crap really. If you're going to be serious about being kind to our furry and not-so-furry friends by using a milk alternative, get some local organic soy beans and make the shit yourself. Seriously. Or if you're just a vego like me, drink organic cows’ milk. Happy cows make the yummiest, lowest emitting milk, and you can recycle the bottles.
Oh, and that Budget? When are our country's leaders gonna stop being fucking idiots and trying to fix everything by focusing on the economy? It's not real. It's digits and decimal points. ARGH! I've got the rage ...
Yeah ... rant over.
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