Carbon footprints, dirty feet

Michael Specter essay "Big Foot" was right on target and he used alot of data to back it all up he also had a significant number of ideas on how to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases around the world. Unfortuntely as interesting and insighful as the essay is, charging taxes, creating carbon labels, and reducing the miles in food products are great ideas that I will not see make really any sort of impact in my time. Yes, we have become aware that there is a problem, but no one is willing to scarfice their money to correct it and that is the bottom line.  It is not profiable to reduce green house gases, it not going to make me rich and afford a early retirement in a gated Florida community.  John Elkington's claim "We are in an era of creative destruction" (292)  is a very stark statement.  We are destroying ourselves but not in what you may consider the old fashion way, we have created a interesting set of ways that mask themselves in harmless way. Consider for a moment the fact that we are as a nation trying to eat healthly food but to what expense?  We have the need for apples, but yet must be forced to import them from a foreign country forcing them to arrive her by jet plane which emits carbon into the air which is slowly killing us.  It is a twisted creative way that we are actually adding to the problems but trying to live better.

You wouldn't be human if you didn't realize that we are all blame and should take responsiblity for global warming. Unless you built your house from trees, dug a well for water, grow your own food, build fires for heat and cooking and own not a single piece of electronics can you not feel some responsiblity as a consumer.  Just blogging this reaction I am responsible for global warming, as I use my laptop that is plugged into the electical outlet, I am adding to the problem.  What can I do about it? That is a question that you can answer, but it will make no difference, you won't change your behavior, you almost can't even if you wanted to. It is not possible unless we all do it at the same time and as one world.