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December 2nd 2007 20:42
Bizarre Politics Reports:
Dark Side of the Green World
A new Colorado startup company - ShipGreen - has developed software to calculate the environmental cost to the ecology related to shipping. It does so by calculating the amount of carbon dioxide emmissions in shipping of products purchased online. It then tells you how much more you need to spend to reduce the same amount of emissions somwhere else. The extra money on a single transaction might go to a wind farm in New Zealand. or perhaps to support a reforestation effort in China.
It sound like a good program but hides the real core problems affecting the environment.
In our city, the Mayor is talking about promoting renewable energy sources- from landfill gas to wind and sun. He wants the city owned electric company to provide 25 percent of its power based on renewal energy by 2025. At the same time, he celebrated the opening of a Wal-Mart on a site where steel was once produced. Now much of the steel comes from outside the USA. We think it is a sacrilege to build a Wal-Mart where once thousands made a middle class living producing steel locally. It seems there should be a calculation of how much energy is used and how much carbon dioxide emmissions are produced getting the steel to the city and the many other imports to places like Wal-Mart and Home Depot.
We were part of a story in a top newspaper about an example of this contradiction.
The article was about The Dark Side of Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs - click her to read the story We also had a follow up response to the article about A darker story behind the dark side of energy saving light bulbs - click here to read this story
We call the energy saving light bulb - the 8,000 mile light bulb. It takes 8,000 of miles to get to our cities in the U.S.A. This means the long haul ocean, train and truck shipping of the products offsets the energy savings. The carbon dioxide emmissions involved in the 8,000 miles probably does more damage than good as far as this product and other such products are concerned. The articles also talks about into the mercury used in the bulbs. We noted there is also mercury in the manufacturing of the bulbs. This is also a darker story behind the dark side of the product itself. The U.S. has moved much of its "dirty manufacturing" outside of the USA and there are no walls in the sky to stop this pollution.
In our response to the first newspaper story, we noted how Home Depot gave thousands of these bulbs away for free on Earth Day. They said it was the equivalent of taking thousands of cars off the highway. They said nothing about the effects of the long haul shipping of the products and the protective packaging that was required to get the product to the USA . They also said nothing about the protective packaging which also impacts the environment.
Read the articles and compare the things you are using where you think you are doing something good for the environment. Do a simple calculation of your own. Globalization and Free Trade magnify the green earth problems with local value added economies destroyed. On top of this, millions of jobs are affected. A few days later, an electrical workers union put in full page ad in the newspaper about the job losses due to the bulbs made outside the USA.
Former Vice-President Al Gore received the Noble Peace Prize for his promoting the Green Earth - however, he was Vice-President when President Bill Clinton consummated Free Trade. Free Trade is the tool used by Globalists for moving production and factories to far away places. It allowed many manufacturers to escape the pollution standards in the USA. It perverted the call to protect our environments and to stop global warming.
Someone should ask both Gore and the Clintons about this. ( Pres Bush just followed in Clinton's footsteps - Hillary stands ready to do the same. )
The darker story also involves a latter post here at Bizarre Politics. Is this the New World Order or the New World Dis-order. It seems more like a dis-order fostered by Dysfunctional Globalists. Click here to Explore and tour the lost worlds in the Globalist Free Trade Flat World of Thomas Friedman from the New York Times, the Clintons and the Bush family
It sound like a good program but hides the real core problems affecting the environment.
In our city, the Mayor is talking about promoting renewable energy sources- from landfill gas to wind and sun. He wants the city owned electric company to provide 25 percent of its power based on renewal energy by 2025. At the same time, he celebrated the opening of a Wal-Mart on a site where steel was once produced. Now much of the steel comes from outside the USA. We think it is a sacrilege to build a Wal-Mart where once thousands made a middle class living producing steel locally. It seems there should be a calculation of how much energy is used and how much carbon dioxide emmissions are produced getting the steel to the city and the many other imports to places like Wal-Mart and Home Depot.
We were part of a story in a top newspaper about an example of this contradiction.
The article was about The Dark Side of Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs - click her to read the story We also had a follow up response to the article about A darker story behind the dark side of energy saving light bulbs - click here to read this story
We call the energy saving light bulb - the 8,000 mile light bulb. It takes 8,000 of miles to get to our cities in the U.S.A. This means the long haul ocean, train and truck shipping of the products offsets the energy savings. The carbon dioxide emmissions involved in the 8,000 miles probably does more damage than good as far as this product and other such products are concerned. The articles also talks about into the mercury used in the bulbs. We noted there is also mercury in the manufacturing of the bulbs. This is also a darker story behind the dark side of the product itself. The U.S. has moved much of its "dirty manufacturing" outside of the USA and there are no walls in the sky to stop this pollution.
In our response to the first newspaper story, we noted how Home Depot gave thousands of these bulbs away for free on Earth Day. They said it was the equivalent of taking thousands of cars off the highway. They said nothing about the effects of the long haul shipping of the products and the protective packaging that was required to get the product to the USA . They also said nothing about the protective packaging which also impacts the environment.
Read the articles and compare the things you are using where you think you are doing something good for the environment. Do a simple calculation of your own. Globalization and Free Trade magnify the green earth problems with local value added economies destroyed. On top of this, millions of jobs are affected. A few days later, an electrical workers union put in full page ad in the newspaper about the job losses due to the bulbs made outside the USA.
Former Vice-President Al Gore received the Noble Peace Prize for his promoting the Green Earth - however, he was Vice-President when President Bill Clinton consummated Free Trade. Free Trade is the tool used by Globalists for moving production and factories to far away places. It allowed many manufacturers to escape the pollution standards in the USA. It perverted the call to protect our environments and to stop global warming.
Someone should ask both Gore and the Clintons about this. ( Pres Bush just followed in Clinton's footsteps - Hillary stands ready to do the same. )
The darker story also involves a latter post here at Bizarre Politics. Is this the New World Order or the New World Dis-order. It seems more like a dis-order fostered by Dysfunctional Globalists. Click here to Explore and tour the lost worlds in the Globalist Free Trade Flat World of Thomas Friedman from the New York Times, the Clintons and the Bush family
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