Get ready! June 12, 2008 is the day dedicated to wasting as much energy and creating as large a carbon footprint as possible. So drive your giant SUV's around town, leave the lights on, hold a barbeque. Just do what comes naturally. Those of you who missed "earth hour" a while back now have a second chance to engage in a pointless exercise that will have no real impact on the global climate!
From the article: http://grassfire.org/ http://www.carbonbelchday.com/ http://www.carbonbelchday.com/calculator.asp?RID=&PID= You can even calculate your carbon belch. Here's mine: Your Carbon Belch: Your one-day Carbon Belch has been calculated at: 381 pounds of CO2. Nice job! (The average American's belch is 41 pounds.) Thanks to you, we have calculated a cumulative total of 75,499,087 pounds of CO2 set to be released on Carbon Belch Day.
I just used the calculator to figure out how much carbon I've emitted today. It's 226 pounds of CO2. And it's only 4 O'clock!
Why don't I propose "Laugh at Minorities Day" I mean we are never going to solve racism completely in this country, so why don't we just embrace it, for at least one day? So I propose May 29 be "Laugh at Minorities Day" Were you make and active effort on this day to find every minority you can and laugh in his or her face specifying how they will never be treated quite as good as white people and how their constant eating of watermelons and chicken amuses you.
Good idea for a protest against the greenie weenies, except that I'm frugal already. Just can't think of an example of how which I would like to "waste" some energy? Similarly, where might I cut back on energy use, were I so deluded as to think it would make much difference, in the grand scheme of things?
I fired several salutes from my 12lb. Napoleon Artillery straight Black Powder, plenty of carbon foot print there. Fired up the Charcoal Grill, and sacrificed some prime beef to the gods of fire, medum rare, and the edges just crisp. Then I sent a couple of hundred dollars of Fire Works up, in salute to the Day.
I can't help but be reminded of this: Nation's Experts Give Up 'From Now On, You're On Your Own,' Say Experts June 16, 1999 | Issue 35•23 WASHINGTON, DC—Citing years of frustration over their advice being misunderstood, misrepresented or simply ignored, America's foremost experts in every field collectively tendered their resignation Monday. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Left: Child-rearing expert Dr. Patrick Coughlin and Korean War expert Dr. Laurence Block field reporters' questions following the mass resignation of America's 243,839 experts. "Despite all our efforts to advise this nation, America still throws out its recyclables, keeps its guns in unlocked cabinets where children have easy access, eats three times as much red meat as is recommended, watches seven hours of TV per day, swims less than 10 minutes after eating, and leaves halogen lights on while unattended," said Dr. Simon Peavy, vice-president of the National Association of Experts. "Since you don't seem to care about things you don't understand, screw you. We quit." "My final piece of expert advice," Peavy added, "is that all of you people should just go fuck yourselves." Michael Leland, until recently a Department of Energy advisor specializing in planetary energy-use infrastructures and a leading expert in petrochemical and fossil-fuel depletion, maintained that the experts' mass resignation is justified. "Last year, I testified before Congress that at the current rate of consumption, the planet's supply of coal, natural gas and oil would be gone within 40 years, and they looked at me as if I was some sort of crackpot," Leland said. "What's the point?" http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29351
I'm thinking there will be a bovine protest on this day. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! If cows have to do their bit, why can't you?Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
