I think with Virgin Airways now you can buy carbon offsets when you fly.
Also there is some weird scheme that planes could drop some garbage in the atmosphere to help cool the planet.
Anyone know the details?
People do not see any urgency in GW. It is going to take a few international cities to go first. At the moment is only a couple of unimportant pacific islands.
Terra preta is such a great scheme (and not just for slowing global warming).
It amazes and saddens me that it is not yet even on the radar.
I remember a lecture on "attitude change" where the lecturer said it was
high status people who changed opinion and attitudes( eg doctors, celebs, etc)- others then followed . So I guess we will have to wait for Bush to have an epiphany?
I agree in the past we had time to wait for change eg "
Please wash your hands before cutting me open doc!" 'Please don't smoke'. But even with these two examples it has /is difficult to change attitudes there is still a lot of backsliding. One big USA hospital recently cut its death rate from 10,000 patients a year to 1. just by enforcing and encouraging everyone to wash their hands (This IS the 21st century isn't it? Where
is my TARDIS key?).
Look at how hard it is to change attitudes on Hypography.
For Buffy et al Are SA diamond mines near the coast?
Buffy have you seen W Oz "champagne diamonds? very classy sparkly and pretty
you could start acollection there are pretty pink ones, pretty yellow ones. One of each is surly not too much to ask?
Australian Diamonds
Argyle Diamonds - Library
