Carbon Games: no chemist need apply

The high theatre is becoming absurd. STR pointed readers to this webspace - a 'news' magazine countering 'liberal bias' in the media. The article makes fun of real mitigation efforts and then starts knocking everything that every country in the world is doing to play this new political invented game. And the players - governments and corporations are not the 'liberal media'. This is a real opportunity to test the concept of trickle down economics.

If they want the game to be serious, it has to happen on the ground and be relevant to the real people. If Carbon Planet has a means to generate economy by doing this, then i'll check it out to see how they count their offsets and how they verify the tons of reduction - so that they are not selling the same ton each time. If it works for them, perhaps through affilitiation with Wonder Earth Partners, we can use their tons of baseline as the capitol for a similar trading cooperative. Each person may buy shares, do a personal baseline assessment and then you can either spend your shares to mitigate further increasing carbon consumption; or reduce your carbon load and take some of the other folks money by mitigating their lifestyle excesses. It seems to work for Tipper and Al.

Devices to measure carbon - devices to tell how much is produced or consumed. Simple calculations so people can keep track - reductions games on a personal scale. Hmmm. Could work - if there was an investor with real money and a good salesman. I think i could create the game and drive the interest, but it relies on people actually doing some work and most don't really wish to put forth any effort that they don't have to. This can work like a candy machine outside at a weight loss clinic.

(& thanks to Eco-chick for allowing me a rent-a-blog space. i dislike registrations, too close to regulations, which i really distain)