carbon credits
What are carbon credits you ask? Glad I can be of some help. I am writing this in a not to intell,er, i mean smart way;)
Lets say you own an industrial plant. This particular industrial plant has a big smoke stack. The process you are using creates smoke , (green house gasses). It would cost you a Gazillion dollars to stop emitting all of this smoke. You don't have that much money under your mattress. So what you do is buy "carbon credits". Currently I think "carbon Credits" are selling for about $16.00. This means you pay $16.00 to someone to be allowed to belch out 1 metric ton of carbon (green house gases). This makes the regulatory authorities happy. This way you can still run your factory. Since gasses do not weigh a lot, this would be a lot of carbon.
Here is my question. where does the money go? Does someone take your $16 and plant some trees that can also offset your carbon emissions.
On Earth there are two very popular places that suck up your carbon. The first is forest. The problem is that in the good ole US of A 78% of our forest are gone. As for the rest of the world they cut down trees to make money. This means your carbon is absorbed by the Oceans. Thats right the oceans are a huge carbon sink. The problem with all of those trees being gone, our Oceans absorb too musch carbon. So much carbon in fact that when mixed with other elements this carbon becomse NASTY,NASTY carbonic acid. This is why man of our planets reefs are bleached white. This is also why many marine animals can no longer make the shells they need out of calcium they absorb from the waters.
Hers is what you can do. Look at your yard. Plant some trees.
What are carbon credits you ask? Glad I can be of some help. I am writing this in a not to intell,er, i mean smart way;)
Lets say you own an industrial plant. This particular industrial plant has a big smoke stack. The process you are using creates smoke , (green house gasses). It would cost you a Gazillion dollars to stop emitting all of this smoke. You don't have that much money under your mattress. So what you do is buy "carbon credits". Currently I think "carbon Credits" are selling for about $16.00. This means you pay $16.00 to someone to be allowed to belch out 1 metric ton of carbon (green house gases). This makes the regulatory authorities happy. This way you can still run your factory. Since gasses do not weigh a lot, this would be a lot of carbon.
Here is my question. where does the money go? Does someone take your $16 and plant some trees that can also offset your carbon emissions.
On Earth there are two very popular places that suck up your carbon. The first is forest. The problem is that in the good ole US of A 78% of our forest are gone. As for the rest of the world they cut down trees to make money. This means your carbon is absorbed by the Oceans. Thats right the oceans are a huge carbon sink. The problem with all of those trees being gone, our Oceans absorb too musch carbon. So much carbon in fact that when mixed with other elements this carbon becomse NASTY,NASTY carbonic acid. This is why man of our planets reefs are bleached white. This is also why many marine animals can no longer make the shells they need out of calcium they absorb from the waters.
Hers is what you can do. Look at your yard. Plant some trees.
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