[Stoves] Improved cook stoves and carbon footprint

[acparker at xmission.com]

Well, since David started, I thought I'd pile on.  It was often jokingly
stated that someday someone would figure out a way to charge us or tax
us for the air we breathe.  Obviously, His Holiness, Al Gore is that
someone.  He took the joke as a challenge and here we are -- Carbon
Allotments, Rations and Credits.

>From the ethereal heights of First World Global Warming dogma, it must
seem easy to simply dictate that the world immediately abandon all
carbon-based energy lest we all perish from climate change --
eventually; maybe.

It is one thing to perish in one hundred, or a thousand, or ten thousand
years in a computer model and it is quite another thing to actually
starve to death this year in an artificial famine caused by Global
Warming policy.

Most, if not all, of the designs and technologies discussed on this list
are sincere attempts at bettering the lives of the world's poor and
disadvantaged.  They improve health and safety, they save money, they
save forests, they constructively utilize waste, they invigorate local
economies.  I personally do not care if they do not fit the iron bed of
the Global Warming purists.  These good people should be commended,
rather than castigated, for they, at least, are doing something that
helps people now, and that, in many cases, needs no subsidy.

For me, the 'Inconvenient Truth' is that the hysteria over Global
Warming has become a destructive distraction which, if allowed to
progress unfettered, will bring about far more, and immediate, chaos and
death than the most charismatic Climate Change doomsayers could conjure
up.

Oh, for the days when environmental responsibility meant only emitting
CO2 and water.  May they return again, soon.


Andrew P.