Forget Dion’s Green Shaft, forget Kyoto … have we got a Carbon Footprint reducer for you … become a Hindu:
Q: What have you done personally to shrink your carbon footprint?
A: I’ve become a vegetarian. I try to minimize the use of cars. Where I’ve failed is my impact with regard to air travel. I tell people I was born a Hindu who believes in reincarnation. It will take me the next six lives to neutralize my carbon footprint. There’s no way I can do it in one lifetime!
Oooooo – another pompous pontificating ass.
The Hindus in India do not share that opinion.
That interview ranks up there with some of the stupidest things I have ever read.
Dr Pachauri should try being a vegetarian in Canada, particularly in the north.
Are carbon credits you buy today transferable to your next lifetime. He’d better read the fineprint.
How is the Earth going to support human life for that many more lifetimes? Sometimes it is almost as if the warmies haven’t though this stuff through.
I think there is an opportunity here to sell reincarnation credits. If you will guarantee to be reincarnated as a an earthworm instead of a person, then you can have a much larger, guilt-free carbon footprint to use now. As an earth worm your carbon slime-print will be tiny.
I cannot agree to become a Hindu, because I really don’t care for curry. I like eating cows, and am not attracted to women who have to shave their backs.
I pay absolutely no attention whatsoever to the crap around the climate change hype. I don’t do much in the way of recycling. I have a wood burning fireplace. I don’t drive too small a car, I use all the toilet paper and paper towels that I want to. I don’t believe in reincarnation, so this is my only shot. I don’t plane to spend it in the state of guilt and fear. That’s for catholics and progressives. Life is meant to be lived, not regretted.
I am willing to accept whatever the climate tosses my way. In my world, humans don’t have the ability to outshine the sun. We are almost nothing in the big picture and if we are not successful in getting some of us off of this planet, we will cease to exist at some point in the the not too distant future … cosmologically speaking.
Dr Pachauri was a railroad manager, his scientific field is Industrial Engineering, after that a pure and simple path to political hack. Our little journo numbskull restricted by his two guinea pig powered brain where skepticism is eternally suspended would never have googled his background.
“Pachauri was educated at La Martiniere College in Lucknow[2] and at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Jamalpur, Bihar. He began his career with the Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi, where he held several managerial positions. Pachauri joined the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, where he obtained an MS in Industrial Engineering in 1972, a PhD in Industrial Engineering and a PhD in Economics”…..wikipedia.
The MSM and Al Gore minions keep gaming the public with their irrelevant “scientists” who bring no science but only politics to GW.
By our esteemed UN money hustler’s logic US and Canadian taxpayers should and would be responsible to clean up the foul air at the Beijing Olympics. Hold that thought for a few minutes, folks!
My favorite part; we should lead the way with emissions control, and then the third world will just follow along. Loose translation is – leave my country alone!
“It will take me the next six lives to neutralize my carbon footprint. There’s no way I can do it in one lifetime!”
Brilliant! I am now a Hindu, and I solemnly PROMISE that, six lifetimes from now, roughly 480 years hence, I will have reduced my carbon footprint to conform to the Kyoto Accord.
Governments should take heed! Stephen, enact legislation to have us in tune with Kyoto by 2488, and not a day later!
India just recently announced that they officially disagree with the theory of man made global warming. I wonder if Raj is going to have trouble making money on the Indian lecture circuit.
My sons have a Hindu friend they’ve gone to school with for years. I heard he’s been eating hamburgers when his parents aren’t around. He was a nice kid, but once he entered adulthood his caste system heritage began to show through.
Quote: It will take me the next six lives to neutralize my carbon footprint. There’s no way I can do it in one lifetime!”
Brilliant! I am now a Hindu, and I solemnly PROMISE that, six lifetimes from now, roughly 480 years hence, I will have reduced my carbon footprint to conform to the Kyoto Accord.
Governments should take heed! Stephen, enact legislation to have us in tune with Kyoto by 2488, and not a day later!
Posted by: dmorris at August 3, 2008 5:07 PM
LOL, that’s just funny.
So what did this person do in their previous life to be returned as an idiot?
And should he be reincarnated as a methane producing cow, add another six lifetimes.
So what did this person do in their previous life to be returned as an idiot?
Voted liberano?
Never thought that being an organic form of live is so embarrassing!
the six lives would be relatively short if he came back as a drone bee or some other insect all six times.