WAG - Windfarm Action Group - the growing blight on the good earth ☯
|
|
BUT WHAT ABOUT CARBON OFFSET SCHEMES?
One of the biggest carbon offset schemes is run by JP Morgan Climate Care
Their website is registered to JP Morgan Chase and Co
JPMorgan Chase is one of the oldest financial institutions in the United States, a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity. Their stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Here's how this works
You register at their site and enter the details of your trip and then you make a payment to the scheme
You go off on your happy holiday by air and someone in the 3rd World is supposed to benefit
Here's one of the not-so-wonderful benefits this bestows on the 3rd World
(The part in blue below is drawn directly from the JP Morgan Climatecare website)
It's called 'Human Energy'
Yes- you can help to provide treadmills so that poorer people can (unlike us with our readily available energy supplies) be provided with a treadmill for their community so they can pedal for their power.
A century after treadmills were abolished in British prisons, peasant farmers are being encouraged to irrigate land using “human power” rather than diesel pumps.
FROM THE JP CLIMATE CARE WEBSITE PAGE AS FOLLOWS IN BLUE
Human energy
Human energy. An often overlooked source of renewable energy is the human body itself. With some lateral thinking and some simple materials, energy solutions can often be found which replace fossil fuels with muscle-power. Every source of human energy will be different, and the number of applications is hugely varied.
Benefits
Lateral Thinking? Simple Materials? Muscle Power??..A Scandal
And who is actually making money from these schemes?
Carbon Offset companies are springing up all over the place, selling their services and their schemes.
If you pay into a Carbon Offset Scheme check very carefully how that money will be used.
The UK Carbon Offset Guide DOES NOT list Human Power as an energy alternative
To cancel out the CO2 of a return flight to India, it will take one poor villager three years of pumping water by foot. So is carbon offsetting the best way to ease your conscience?
Their website is registered to JP Morgan Chase and Co
JPMorgan Chase is one of the oldest financial institutions in the United States, a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity. Their stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Here's how this works
You register at their site and enter the details of your trip and then you make a payment to the scheme
You go off on your happy holiday by air and someone in the 3rd World is supposed to benefit
Here's one of the not-so-wonderful benefits this bestows on the 3rd World
(The part in blue below is drawn directly from the JP Morgan Climatecare website)
It's called 'Human Energy'
Yes- you can help to provide treadmills so that poorer people can (unlike us with our readily available energy supplies) be provided with a treadmill for their community so they can pedal for their power.
A century after treadmills were abolished in British prisons, peasant farmers are being encouraged to irrigate land using “human power” rather than diesel pumps.
FROM THE JP CLIMATE CARE WEBSITE PAGE AS FOLLOWS IN BLUE
Human energy
Human energy. An often overlooked source of renewable energy is the human body itself. With some lateral thinking and some simple materials, energy solutions can often be found which replace fossil fuels with muscle-power. Every source of human energy will be different, and the number of applications is hugely varied.
Benefits
- Replaces polluting diesel-powered pumps that farmers could barely afford to hire.
- Enables 2 or 3 harvests a year, instead of 1.
- Prevents farmers having to leave their families to work in the city during 'off season'.
- Farmers' income dramatically increases, often between two and five-fold.
Lateral Thinking? Simple Materials? Muscle Power??..A Scandal
And who is actually making money from these schemes?
Carbon Offset companies are springing up all over the place, selling their services and their schemes.
If you pay into a Carbon Offset Scheme check very carefully how that money will be used.
The UK Carbon Offset Guide DOES NOT list Human Power as an energy alternative
To cancel out the CO2 of a return flight to India, it will take one poor villager three years of pumping water by foot. So is carbon offsetting the best way to ease your conscience?
 |
A Fairy Tale for All?
This company commissioned a report which states in glowing terms the benefits to Indian farmers. At the left is the Report Cover with its quite astonishing title- A Fairy Tale for All
You can see the feet of an Indian farmer treadalling away above an irrigation ditch We question this below where you can see a page from the report illustrating how a typical Indian family make use of their treadmill |
The Study finds that this system helps farmers to have more crops, stay at home etc etc
All well and good- but surely there are other means to achieve the same ends
QUESTIONS
- Could we help these farmers by giving them Solar Panels to produce power for their pumps
- Could we give them the additional mechanised methods of farming that we ourselves use
- Would we seriously contemplate asking farmers and their families in the UK to do this
- Is it acceptable to describe this as a 'social activity'
- If so should we introduce this 'social activity across the UK
The Whole family operate the pump for 6 to 7 hours a day in the summer
We would call this Slave Labour would we not?
"The Young Children sometimes climb onto the pump with their father or mother to be with him or her as they operate it" Really? YES-Really!!!
Who is kidding who here? Who really benefits?
Once you have looked at the image and text below
Return to the page on Climate/Warming/C02
read through again to see and clearly understand how this vicious circle began
 |
This additional image of an Indian farmer on a bamboo treadmill is taken from the JP Morgan Climatecare website. You have dig down to find it but it's there.You won't find it on their front page that's for sure
|
