Thursday, March 12, 2009

WWF advocates videoconferencing for the little people

Climate change steps 'should be taken now' | ETA
According to Colin Butfield, head of campaigns for the World Wildlife Fund, businesses are a key area which should be targeted to reduce carbon emissions.

He added addressing this issue will be a "very positive thing" for firms in Britain, but now is the time for action to be taken, which could include companies using video-conferencing rather than travelling to meet clients.

Mr Butfield said: "From a business point of view, if we do not tackle climate change now it’s going to cost the economy probably about 20 times more...
Oct '08: The Hypocrisy of the World Wildlife Fund's Eco Tour | Autopia from Wired.com
Lush plant life and exotic wild animals. Formal dinners and luxury accommodations. Twenty five adventurous days in 11 different countries, all reached by private jet. Sounds like a great vacation, sure, but also an expensive exercise in hypocrisy by the World Wildlife Fund.
If the people at this week's alarmist Copenhagen meeting actually believed CO2 was dangerous, why didn't they use videoconferencing?
While in Copenhagen 2,000 scientists from 80 countries are fine tuning the growing international consensus on man-made climate change, opposition come together in New York asking "Global Warming: Was it ever really a crisis".

1 comment:

Lemon said...

The Awarmists have chatted over chai tea and come with an answer to convincing all us Denialists on the urgency.

Put the argument in monetary terms. We are capitalist pigs and everything boils down to money, right.

Problem is they think we are stupid and we are not. When they come up with arbitrary numbers like - it will cost 20x much if we dont do it now, we know that they dont know what theyre talking about, and dismiss thier BS even more.