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Wise words from Sir Alex

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:36:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Quite right - no one's saying it this year 'cos they're out.

"There's no outstanding one. There was a spell last year when everyone was saying 'we don't want to get Barcelona' but I don't think anyone's saying that this year. I hope I'm right."

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The myth of carbon trading and off-setting.

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:45:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Carbon trading and off-setting is not the answer. The answer is reduction.

Clip Source: www.newint.org

Climate change is ultimately a narrative of oil, coal and gas. It is the story of humanity’s plundering of the earth’s fossil carbon, burning it and releasing it into the active carbon cycle, in turn disrupting the balance of carbon in air, soil and seas. If we were to succeed in harvesting all the ‘locked’ carbon in fossil fuels and setting it free to circulate in the atmosphere, we’d render the earth inhospitable to life as we know it. Unless we want to live on Venus, our task therefore is to leave that fossil carbon in the ground. This basic requirement, however, is precisely what the carbon market (of which offsets are a part) has been set up to avoid.