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Early on in my career, I'd planned to be a rich glitterati and jet around the world getting my face in the news for environmental causes, maybe becoming a peace ambassadar and throwing lavish parties, maybe getting a nobel prize and flying my entourage around with me, maybe even being a leftwing politician and suck up to hollywood and rent an island to discuss how to save the planet.

But I decided it would be better for the environment to be an average working slob who can't afford private jets, huge mansions, and a fleet of cars.

So I'm like way ahead in saving the planet. These carbon offset plans should pay me to keep my current lifestyle.

LOL whales!

I guess the 'greening of the capitol' they were talking about involves drowning themselves in our hard earned green capital.

Good use of the word "indulgences" there. Says something about the Catholic Church, no? :-)

"Says something about the Catholic Church, no?"

Yep, we've made that comparison many times. That's exactly what this is like, the selling of indulgences by the Catholic Church in the middle ages, which, among other things, prompted Martin Luther to nail his 95 thesis to the church door in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517, the start of protestantism. Which is one of the many reasons people say envirotology is like a religion. I expect one day they'll merge with Cruise's church.

Might as well pull out the old doves livers and see what Gaia thinks we should do to appease the climate gods. Then Xenu will take us all up in DC-8's to fight in the galactic empire, or whatever.

Delema –

I was considering buying it to the new carbon sequestering scheme where you pay Liberal EnviroWacs to cut down a perfect old growth tree, and then bury it in the dirt so that all of the carbon it holds will go back to mother earth, vice the atmosphere.

What do it do if:

1) the EnviroWacs are using gas operated (not to mention 2-cycle instead of cleaner 4-cycle) chainsaws, and diesel motored digging equipment? Should I not demand proof that they are using a manual 2 man cross-cut felling saw (12 foot blade) circa. 1860? Should I demand proof of them digging and covering the hole by hand? Should I demand proof of them dragging the big tree with at least a 20 Mule Team? What about all that carbon and methane from the 20 Mule Team?

2) there is a Spotted Owl living with its cute little family in the tree? This is hard. What is now more important? Cut down the tree and kill the poor Owl? What to do? How many carbon offsets is one measly Spotted Owl worth?

3) what if there are some hippy smelling leftoids actually living in the tree, to protect it from the BIG BAD Industry that might cut the tree and use it for the good of humans’ needs? Ohhh, this one is hard to get my brain around. What about the hippy smelling leftoids sitting in the tree? Do they rain their excrement down on the hippy smelling EnviroWacs that now want to cut their tree down and bury it? What to do?

At least with #3 above, if there are hippy smelling leftoids living in the tree, I would actually enjoy seeing other EnviroWacs fell the tree with them in it. No great loss, but an interesting conflict of waco interests.

In reality, I’d feel a lot more remorse for seeing a Spotted Owl disturbed, vice the hippy smelling leftoids, because, at least the Owl knows how to fly and defy gravity. The Owl is smarter and smells better.

At first glance, I thought the headline said "Ego-Indulgences". Kinda the same thing, I guess.

Advice can be given concerning the environment and overindulgences without becoming an example. I’ve done it myself. I raised a daughter. Some examples of advice we all give our kids, (and we don’t even have a private jet or a slide show):

“Quite using so damned much toilet paper, or get a job and pay for it yourself!”

“Shut the freakin’ door! I know you weren’t born in a barn, I was there!”

“You can use the car, but you put gas in it.”

“If you don’t quit standing there with the refrigerator door open I’m gonna padlock that sucker shut and hide the key!”

“It doesn’t take a half hour or half that much water to boil an egg.”

The list of similar environmental lessons we received as kids and passed on to ours is endless.

“Use the push mower.” (He-he-he; that was always my dad’s favorite environmental advice to me when it was 100 degrees and the gas can was empty.)

I guess my point is; most of us were taught from a young age how to be friendly to our environment. (And those who weren’t get $1,000 fines for littering; or pay ungodly utility bills like Algore.) Conservation was always, and will always be part of life. We are, after all, conservatives, damnit. But these Algorian fools will insist on money in the form of taxes to pay for “government programs” to figure out how to give you the advice you’re granny already gave you for free! And they’re so damned annoying! It’s like having someone following you around telling you to breath. Sooner or later you want to turn around and slap the dipshit out of them. ;-)

It's always amazing (and frustrating in the extreme) to see how politicians can spend other people's money. The Dhimmicrats are better at it than the Republicans, but they're both unhinged when it comes to throwing money at a problem (or, in this case, like many others, at a perceived problem that does not actually exist -- in which case, they just make one up! Anything to get that gelt out there so they can go look for some more to steal!).

"Oiao at January 28, 2008 3:28 PM"

I'll probably lose five whole minutes of sleep worrying about THAT delima!