Hoodwinked by Krivit! Ah, sometimes I just take things to literally!
Nice one, Steve.
Regards
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
Hi Steven,
I gots to keep y'all on your toes.
But this one's real, if you've not seen it:
http://www.ecoshock.org/2007/09/planktos-ii-intervention.html
Steve
Here are a few of the "issues" Smith points out:
"But the PRINCIPLE, Russ, is exactly the same. Someone, less caring than
you, but just as passionate, and sure of his cause, can go ahead and enact
their plan, by your example. This is what the
<http://action.foe.org/dia/organizationsORG/foe/pressRelease.jsp?press_release_KEY=243>Friends
of Earth meant in their press release, - their objection to using the Ocean
as a private, for profit, petri dish.
Individuals, and small companies, with no oversight, should not be allowed
to dabble with the ecosystem of the sea, to make money. That endangers
everyone.
Second, just the idea of carbon offsets lets us keep on polluting. I'm not
worried about my SUV gas guzzler, because I've paid Russell George, and
some algae, a few bucks to soak up my soot. Why bother ending coal? Or
saving power? You get the picture.
Then we have the fatal problem, of verification. As David Santillo, our
Greenpeace scientist said, there is no system of verification, to know the
carbon remained in the ocean. We can guess, we can extrapolate from
measurements, but no human technology, so far, can really know whether a
ton of carbon dioxide, allegedly grabbed by Planktos algae, really stayed
in the Sea. The science we have is too vague, we lack certainty.
Worse, Russell George has a record of manipulating appearances. Some of his
claims don't stand up to close scrutiny, to fact-checking. And the
controlling stockholder of Planktos, has already been criminally convicted
of Breach of Trust. None of this promises confidence to the carbon buyer."
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, company names, and stocks, are thrashing
around, with hidden characters, offshore trading, and questionable
promotion. No transparency. It smells fishy."
