I was thinking about CO2

[TimberWolf]

They get a lot of forest fires in the rain forests.

Creating a new rain forest while they are busy chopping down others to make room for agriculture doesn't make a lot of sense. It would probably make more sense to grow rapidly growing plants or coppice and burn that instead of coal. Still not viable though. Too many people.

[Churchill]

If the government are going to tax us on the amount of CO2 we produce, they should give a rebate for any CO2 offsetting we might pay for.

What you are assuming is that CO2 is a real environmental problem and not an excuse to raise revenue!

<--- F**k you Gordon Brown!

[DimPrawn]

Yeah, coat the trees in anti forest fire paint and leave burial costs to your descendants.

They get a lot of forest fires in the rain forests.

[DiscoStu]

Yeah, coat the trees in anti forest fire paint and leave burial costs to your descendants.

It'll be fine, they'll have the technology to deal with it by then.

[TimberWolf]

Only after the tree dies, and if you plant long lived trees, it's not problem for hundreds of years.

Yeah, coat the trees in anti forest fire paint and leave burial costs to your descendants.

[EternalOptimist]

Only after the tree dies, and if you plant long lived trees, it's not problem for hundreds of years.

Why not set up the scheme yourself ? you could plant little tiny trees, because its the number not the size that will earn the money.
Then you could pay old investors with some of the money from newer investors
heck you could then call it the Bonzai Ponzai scheme

[DimPrawn]

Growing a tree isn't enough. You also have to bury it deep underground somewhere airtight.

Only after the tree dies, and if you plant long lived trees, it's not problem for hundreds of years.

[TimberWolf]

If the government are going to tax us on the amount of CO2 we produce, they should give a rebate for any CO2 offsetting we might pay for.

I would rather pay a company to plant trees or protect the rainforests to absorb CO2 than pay Gordon Brown a notional sum for CO2, which he will not spend on the environment, but probably spend on more interpreters or tranlsation all road signs into 47 different languages.

Growing a tree isn't enough. You also have to bury it deep underground somewhere airtight.

[sasguru]

Nah DP loves it here. He'd move abroad but in no other country would he earn the £500 per day he's earned in the last 5 years doing simple web programming.

[sasguru]

He he - did you ask for "richer than sasguru".
I think that is conclusive proof that your are not.
just like I am not better than atw.

[NeverBeenNorthOfTheM25]

If the government are going to tax us on the amount of CO2 we produce, they should give a rebate for any CO2 offsetting we might pay for.

I would rather pay a company to plant trees or protect the rainforests to absorb CO2 than pay Gordon Brown a notional sum for CO2, which he will not spend on the environment, but probably spend on more interpreters or tranlsation all road signs into 47 different languages.

Is it just me, or do you seem a little jaded with life there DimSum?

[DimPrawn]

If the government are going to tax us on the amount of CO2 we produce, they should give a rebate for any CO2 offsetting we might pay for.

I would rather pay a company to plant trees or protect the rainforests to absorb CO2 than pay Gordon Brown a notional sum for CO2, which he will not spend on the environment, but probably spend on more interpreters or tranlsation all road signs into 47 different languages.