[Terrapreta] Fwd: Fwd: Global Carbon Cycle

[Tom Miles]

See wikipedia for Carbon Credits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_credit

and 

Personal Carbon Trading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_carbon_trading

Tom Miles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org [mailto:terrapreta-
> bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Chisholm
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:04 PM
> To: Sean K. Barry
> Cc: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org
> Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Fwd: Fwd: Global Carbon Cycle
> 
> Dear Sean
> 
> This Carbon Credit thing intrigues me.
> 
> I did a search on "getting carbon credits"  but with no quote marks. I
> got  4,710,000 hits. I checked over the first 100 hits and none told me
> how I could apply to get carbon credits. Lots of people seem to be
> selling Carbon Credits but few seem to be buying carbon credits.
> 
> One of the interesting things I came across was:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1823853,00.html
> 
> The British Government is considering implement "swipe cards" that
> would
> be used every time someone buys gasoline, or goes on an airplane trip.
> Their choice of phrase "swipe cards" is probably one of the finer
> Freudian Slips of our time.
> 
> I went to:
> http://www.earthteam.net/GWCampaign/fundraise.html
> 
> and was interested to see that someone is looking for School Children
> to
> go out and raise money from their Community to buy Carbon Credits so
> that the School will have a neutral carbon footprint.
> 
> I wonder if the Carbon Credit thing is just a great big Black Hole for
> money? How come there are so many people accepting money from people
> who
> want to buy carbon credits, and nobody apparently wanting to pay people
> who create the carbon credits?
> 
> Can you see any way to show clearly that the Carbon Credits Movement is
> something other than a money maker for its promoters?
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sean K. Barry wrote:
> > Hi Duane,
> >
> > Yes! Yes!  Now you see where my thinking has been on this.  Have you
> > read any about the Kyoto Protocol Treaty flexibilities?  The "Carbon
> > Trading" scheme envisioned rewards undeveloped countries with "carbon
> > credits" and levies "carbon taxes" on the developed and
> > industrialized countries, who are the ones that have and still do
> > release net increases in atmospheric carbon (per capita too).  It
> > believe that this is exactly how the remediation should be.  The
> > undeveloped countries also have the agarian populations and the land
> > on which to apply the "Neo Terra Preta" land reforming.
> >
> 
> 
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