Applied Solar, Inc. (fka APSOQ)

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I think a smaller carbon footprint is essential. I am not so convinced about global warming but I don't need to be because pollution has other negatives that are indisputable.

In any case, I have a construct that I present to my students concerning global warming that you might find useful.

Divide the world into the forces of hot and the forces of cold (50/50) If you take 1% away from cold and give it to hot it would now be 51/49...a 1% shift creates a 2% difference...now take 2% away and you have 52/48....and 3% and you have 53/47...Now as the % of hot increases the whole process speeds up until we reach what I call the flip point or the point of no return. how close to the edge do you want to walk? I make them think of a balance beam

Having said that, I am not as convinced as I us to be that we are at a true crises point in the global warming process, but I am completly convinced that loss of habitat and species loss, espcially in the oceans needs a stronger focus than the global warming issue, even though they are in many ways related

Preservation of green spaces (animal habitat) and protcting the oceans fisheries are equally urgent and maybe more so.

Biodiversity is humanities bullet proof vest. A bullet proof vest is made of many layers of plastic so as the bullet passees through each layer it is slowed and stopped before it gets to the target. We sit on top of the food chain resting comfortably atop all those lesser life forms, layers which provide for us and insulate us and protect us from biological bullets unseen and unforeseen. Each extinction removes a layer and compacts the food chain and brings the top and the bottom closer together.

All life forms would like to ascend the food chain.
In the recent past lyme disease has been a problem in the Northeast. Why? Is it because those lesser life forms such as toads and salamanders and all the other textures of life that eat tics are missing from the food chain?

Anyway, If Leonardo wants to help maybe he should downsize his carbon footprint. My grandmother had a saying. "Don't tell me, show me". I guess it is another way of saying actions speak louder than words. Or lead by example. Why should I give Leonardo my money when he will probably run out and buy a blanking Hummer. I will sell him my 95 ford escort cheap. i don't buy hollywood. i don't need a movie star to tell me which way the wind is blowing. They are all hypocrits.
sorry for the loonnng post, i felt like rambling