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Indonesia’s new plan to fight global warming is nothing but a supersized version of this.
Best quote of the day:
I can sniff sticky green fingerprints all over this…. and it aint tree frogs.
Posted by Go Canucks on 2007 10 12 at 11:11 AM • permalinkI just counted, we have 27 trees on our block. At $5000 a tree that’s a cool $135,000 ransom. We also have 30 or so shrubs, at $1000 a shrub, some agapanthas and clivea, a nice rockery with erigeron, petunias, gardenias, a trellis of star jasmine, and lots of weeds. Shall we say a flat $200,000? Add $20,000 for the lawns.
Being green has a price.
#3: Haw!
Looks like the market is ripe for Prior Arborial Carbon Offsets. Under this system, the government would have to pay you for all the trees you didn’t cut down on properties you previously owned, in order to compensate you for the unrecognized economic value of the property, of which you were previously unaware, but are still entitled to. I’m sure it’s all legal.
Oh, boy, Andrea is gonna be mad at me again.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 12 at 12:54 PM • permalinkRe #2, yup, Rebecca, that’s exactly what it is. mojo in #10 has the right response, although I recommend napalm. Lots of napalm.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 12 at 12:55 PM • permalinkNothing much new here; the warmologists have been recommending such for quite a while. This is the first time I’ve seen an actual price affixed, though (how does that punch line go—we’ve already established what you are, now we’re just settling on a price). I think it’s only appropriate that the Kyoto signatory nations take care of this. North America, which apparently is quite the efficient little carbon sink, is more heavily forested today than when Columbus and the boys dropped anchor. So bite me, Indonesia. Last I heard, you guys were clearing forest to make way for biomass as fast as your little machetes could chop through the bamboo.
I for one am looking forward to the Bali meeting. Should offer no end of opportunity for amusement.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 10 12 at 04:25 PM • permalinkI think they should cut down AND burn all their forests. ALL of them.
Every friggin’ tree in Indonesia.
Go for it, assholes.
And when you’re finished, you won’t have any trees, and Australia (and other countries that have more than two brain cells among their collective citizenry) still will.
I’ll be happy to send you a case of matches, and chip in on the
gasolinepetrol to get you started, you worthless idiots.How do these fools manage to find even their way to the bathroom every morning?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 10 12 at 07:01 PM • permalinkHow long before one of these clowns starts to claim on the Algae and other
AlGoresscum in their oceans which produce oxygen?
Coral reefs otherwise known by their main chemical component, CaCO3, should keep the tropics in clover while the colder northern and southern countries (helooo Russia) pay us for nothing.
I wonder how much CO is tied up in coral reefs and if that is easily liberated?So back off Indonesia or I’ll chlorinate the great barrier reef!!
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 10 12 at 07:06 PM • permalinkAl Gore would pay it, but only with taxpayer money.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 10 13 at 04:35 AM • permalink
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Extortion! I’m only charging the government a couple of hundred thousand bucks not to chop down my wild plums, oaks and maples.