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A random stat on Climate Change: NZ’ers generate around 10 ton of carbon per year each ‘costing’ the planet $850p.a. (scource National Radio and the Stern report)
Costing, eh? Dad, perhaps you could justify that word a little further beyond just putting it in quote marks? To whom should I write the cheque?
How is carbon generated? From what? Into what? Are we talking graphite, CO2, etc etc etc?
Does each new zealander generate 10 tons?
Do new zealanders generate a total of 10 tons?
Does the $850 refer to the whole ten tons, is it per ton? Is it per new zealander?
Hans what part of ‘each’ don’t you understand?
Richard I didn’t write the headline I’m just repeating it
Dennis, I am sorry that I fail to comprehend your lucid prose, I had thought that by listing a number of questions about the fragmentary anima-adversion you have vouchsafed us that you may be induced to clarify your meaning. I am struggling to grasp which one of the various possible words “each” may be grammatically linked to in your post best illustrates your intention.
If what you have posted contains information worth sharing it ought to be information worth explaining to those of us for whom english is in fact a second language.
re: 2
I don’t see sufficient evidence that anthropogenic CO2 is the cause of climate change and I feel no guilt and no debt.
However if you feel debt please feel free to write me a cheque. I promise to use it on worthy causes. (If cheques are difficult, I’m sure we could arrange a bank deposit)
Here to help ;-)
This ‘Costing’ is an odd concept. The planet has no bank account, or economy as such, so money isn’t exactly any use to it (thus costing it money would be a trivial thing). I am at a loss as to what it could mean. Perhaps the cost of the cleanup of the wastes is said amount (costing us in the long term as it were).
Each year wild animals in Africa generate heaps of carbon too. I wonder who pays for them?
Hmm, and indeed, what sort of carbon per year produced is a huge importance. Graphite for instance isn’t a massive contaminant, nor does it affect global warming (except if you leave a sheet of it in the sun for long enough what with it being dark and all). I’d assume the carbon refered to is CO2, in which case : does this figure take into account the carbon absorption by the trees, plants, etc in New Zealand?
I reckon if we just collected all the excess carbon atoms floating around and assembled them into diamonds we’d kill two birds with one stone. Bird 1 being climate change and a bird 2 being a shortage of diamonds.
Diamonds are problematic
Flippin unstable things. Buy diamonds, and in a coupla thousand years you got a pile of graphite. Nice investment.