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April 22, 2007

Dell Plants Virtual Trees in Alternate Reality

In an indication that environmentalism's divorce from reality is now nearly complete, Dell is exploiting Earth Day by planting virtual trees in a video game called Second Life.

The truly gullible can pay Dell to plant real trees so as to offset the carbon footprint left by planting the make-believe trees in the video game.

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Enviromoonbattery leaves reality behind.

Hat tips: Watts Up With That?, Silicon Valley Sleuth, on a tip from Lou.

Posted by Van Helsing at April 22, 2007 4:13 PM

Comments

Just one quick clarification -- our Plant a Tree for Me program does not "pay" Dell anything. One hundred percent of all donations made through this program go directly to our partners, The Conserveration Fund and Carbonfund.org. They will use 100 percent of the donated funds to facilitate the planting of trees.

Posted by: Laura Thomas/Pyrrha Dell at April 22, 2007 8:26 PM

The Dell employee sounds like one of the hucksters that were selling the "Y2K" melt down not so long back. making calls, telling vendors we all needed to spend dollars to make sure that planes didn't fall out of the sky, or ATM's didn't lose your bank account. Welcome to the next thing to try and wring a dollar out of your pocket "Global Warming"

Perhaps you morons should stop making computers all together, and instead make "worry dolls" made out of recycled cardboard. You can sell them to liberals along with the latest cataclysmic events you attempt to scare a dollar out of them with next.

Posted by: davec at April 22, 2007 11:56 PM

HAHA a neocon claiming that LIBERALS use fear as a motivating tactic!

that's rich!

Posted by: Anonymous at April 23, 2007 2:30 AM

Hasnt DELL heard? Planting trees CAUSES global warming.

http://bobmccarty.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/researchers-say-trees-cause-global-warming/

"Researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported in the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” (April 17) that while tropical forests exert a cooling influence on global climate, forests in northern regions exert a warming influence — and it’s not just a trivial climatic effect."

They better make sure no trees are planted in the northern hemisphere and they should also give customers the chance to have TREES CUT DOWN in northern hemisphere to stop gloooooooooobal warming !! Fire up those bio diesel powered chainsaws bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at April 23, 2007 4:59 AM

They will use 100 percent of the donated funds to facilitate the planting of trees.

I am guessing the fees to pay publicists to brag about the program also counts as "facilitation."

Posted by: V the K at April 23, 2007 5:06 AM

Anonymous, you're up early! didn't your lover leave the light on in the closet, so you spent most of the night quaking under the covers thinking karl rove was hiding in there?

Posted by: davec at April 23, 2007 8:09 AM

Does Dell get virtual carbon offsets? Wait, what am I saying? ALL "carbon offsets" are virtual, i.e. not real.

Posted by: Crush Liberalism at April 23, 2007 10:16 AM

>>>HAHA a neocon claiming that LIBERALS use fear as a motivating tactic!
>>>that's rich!

Yes, quite UNLIKE the Liberal crys about "global warming" dooming species, destroying crops, killing thousands from heat stroke, causing wars and toppling governments.
"HAHA... that's rich!" Yourself.

Posted by: KHarn at April 23, 2007 12:08 PM

perhaps the environmentalist masses can explain to the poor people of Mexico why they have to pay double for corn, since they pushed for ethanol biofuel?

The jump in corn prices is already affecting the cost of food. The most notable example: in Mexico, which gets much of its corn from the United States, the price of corn tortillas has doubled in the past year, according to press reports, setting off large protest marches in Mexico City. It's almost certain that most of the rise in corn prices is due to the U.S. ethanol policy, says David Victor, director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University.


not to worry though, it doesn't directly effect your starbucks Latte price though.

Posted by: davec at April 23, 2007 1:38 PM