How Many Trees

[Ian 46]

I have a environmental conscience, and like to try and recycle wherever possible.

Lately I have found use for an old 1965 Ford engine block, and some 1987 Jaguar suspension components that would otherwise have found themselves in some landfill site somewhere.

When I do eventually get my car on the road, I don't want to find an environmental activist chaining themselves to it every time I park it. So I was thinking about putting a sticker on the windscreen which says 'you won't believe how many trees I've had to plant to drive this', to keep the green brigade happy.

My serious question is - does anyone know how many trees I will have to plant? And will I have a carbon footprint or a carbon football pitch?

Ian

[dingocooke]

at 3000 miles town use at say 8mpg you 'need' to plant 6 trees 'in Kenya' yeah right, I bet your 40 odd quid never buys anything tree like; offsetting is a totally impossible to verify rip off campaign...

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[Clive]

Because you are driving an older car, you have not had to have a new car built in a factory that is churning out pollution, and therefore you are saving the planet!

[chiffer]

My serious question is - does anyone know how many trees I will have to plant? And will I have a carbon footprint or a carbon football pitch?

Ian[/quote]

No, and not so sure. Heard a lot about carbon footprints and how this affects the world. This is an assumption by certain scientists with no actual proof, where as other scientists say we are coming out of another ice age and this is to be expected. Not wishing to open a can of worms here, but, this is a very good way for the government to increase taxes for us with out proof. If it is true then our contribution to the worlds carbon footprint is extremely small compared with China, India, and of course America. Our reduction will do very little to help the world but will help this government a great deal.

Stand back and waits for flack

[dingocooke]

I hear all this about our polution, and it both amuses and annoys me.

Yes we are using the resources up, and when its gone its gone, then it will be interesting! But the global warming debate is just that; sea levels were 30-40 foot higher in the prehistoric era than the worst forecasts by the eco eejits, and nobody has ever found caveman or a dinosaur next to a fossil of a 350 chevy...clearly something else is causing it; I believe its just a cycle, albeit a very long one.
Al Gore (a very inconvenient truth) is a hypocritical phuker too, he has a house with 8 bathrooms, and served endangered species at his daughters wedding for food; his pitch is just alarmist revenge as he didnt get to be president, and even ardent greens admit there are significant and misleading faults in his thesis (rant).

The whole offsetting thing is a joke; tree planting in some far off country to offset your carbon?? Please, are we really so gullible as to believe that will even happen; has anyone ever gone to check out 'their' trees??

As far as I can see, a much bigger contribution to a better environment would be to properly recycle everything, clothes, paper plastic rubber metals etc etc and reduce the need for landfills by better use and ercycling of raw materials?

God what a rant sorry; funny old world!!!

[philip600]

Hi,

Tree's & plants actually breathe Co2 don't they ? So I'm helping by driving my Cobra when I can !

Phil.

[Ian 46]

I'm feeling better already - thanks guys!

[crmcatee]

I recycled some cans the other day.

It felt good doing it - having driven there in the Cobra.

[chedz]

I think the best thing to do is cut trees down.

Trees absorb CO2 from the air and store it as wood. This CO2 store then gets made into chairs/paper and space is made for a new tree to grow and absorb more CO2.

The problem comes when the paper is burned or composted and the CO2 is released, but really its only going back where it came from.

So i say forget hugging the trees and get chopping! If we cut down a million trees and buried them they would eventually turn into coal or oil (admittedly in a very long time) and be a safe underground store of CO2, not only cleaning up the air, but also preserving oil reserves for future generations of cobra drivers.


Graham for PM!

(beer and posting don't mix....burp!)

[Andy S]

Got stopped a few months back by some 'tree huggers' all saying I was destroying the planet etc etc etc.
Till I informed them that the whole suspension was recycled from the 70's, the engine had been recycled from the late 60's, so guess what my car was greener than the one they had used to get to the same place.
They had absolutely no answer whatsoever to that, in the end the one bloke with them said ' nice one mate, give it some stick when you leave'

Who was I to refuse, and those of you that know Rye high st, its very old and narrow, caused a bit of a stir.............oops