Money Tree Cue -What is it? -They talk about climate change -Amazon forest
-Why does travel
have a negative impact on the environment??? -> from flight and car -> so might need to change the material from carbon to something that not harm the environmentNote -SMITH: Thousands of miles, hundreds of gallons of gas - basically destroying the environment to do a series of reports
about people destroying the environment.
-- SMITH: They didn't destroy the environment.
Important question - the reason why they came: So we wanted to ask
you - does carbon offsetting actually work? Can we pay our way out
of our carbon footprint for this trip? - GARCIA-NAVARRO
SMITH: Or is this whole carbon offsetting business, as I have sometimes suspected, a giant scam?
Topic of the show: carbon offsets, global warming
-Sheryl Sturges, smart woman, guest of this show, she is working “with the AES corporation and we were building coal-fired power plants.”
-She has ideas that “ plant a bunch of trees around the coal plants and the coal plant would pump CO2 into the atmosphere and the trees would suck it out.”
-SMITH: You could plant them anywhere and they would still suck up the carbon emissions from the coal plant in Connecticut. -> CARE organization.
-Why does travel
have a negative impact on the environment??? -> from flight and car -> so might need to change the material from carbon to something that not harm the environmentNote -SMITH: Thousands of miles, hundreds of gallons of gas - basically destroying the environment to do a series of reports
about people destroying the environment.
-- SMITH: They didn't destroy the environment.
Important question - the reason why they came: So we wanted to ask
you - does carbon offsetting actually work? Can we pay our way out
of our carbon footprint for this trip? - GARCIA-NAVARRO
SMITH: Or is this whole carbon offsetting business, as I have sometimes suspected, a giant scam?
Topic of the show: carbon offsets, global warming
-Sheryl Sturges, smart woman, guest of this show, she is working “with the AES corporation and we were building coal-fired power plants.”
-She has ideas that “ plant a bunch of trees around the coal plants and the coal plant would pump CO2 into the atmosphere and the trees would suck it out.”
-SMITH: You could plant them anywhere and they would still suck up the carbon emissions from the coal plant in Connecticut. -> CARE organization.
