How Deep is your Carbon Foot Print - ?? Emotional or Factual???

This has become an very important question since so may people are jumping on the emotional band wagon of securing funds for "conservation" and "causes". We should think about the offset of user groups when opposing certain practices and life styles. What might offend you may not necessary be as bad as you imagination or personal emotion is making it out to be. What is your Carbon foot print ... it is the unseen destruction of the planet which you can not pray upon emotionally.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint

"A carbon footprint has historically been defined as "the total set of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by an organization, event, product or person."[1]. However, calculating a carbon footprint which conforms to this definition is often impracticable due to the large amount of data required, which is often costly and time consuming to obtain. A more practicable definition has been suggested, which is gaining acceptance within the field:"

Many people take for granted that eco Tourism is an absolute alternative towards fishing/hunting. They forget that the food that these five star tourist consume are of a much higher production standard than that of some one with an out door leisure life style. This increase the carbon footprint not only for the production of said food source, but also the storage, transportation and preparation of said food.Their is a parallel that can be drawn between every other amenity they use. Transport to reach our country, from point a to b and even their accommodation.

All these leave a much deeper foot print than any other form of local tourist will ever leave on the planet. The sad part about fishing/hunting it is an emotional visual sport  that really only offend the ignorant whom hardly gets involved in knowing the techniques and the person behind the activity. Cruelty against animals are always the main concern, but the highway they drive on, the golf coarse they play on or the movie they watch, is never a consideration since the evidence of cruelty to animals is only evident to those who really care about the planet.

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/06/embodied-energy-of-digital-technology.html

So please if you are emotional about something please follow your heard and not your heart before you exploit the privacy of an innocent person. 

Emotional Causes that have negative effect on the environment.

Elephant Culling - Money is the main guideline
Seal Harvesting - Environmental issues like habitat destruction is the main guideline
Rhino Hunting - Pays for the fight against poaching

The list is actually as long as the consumers needs on the planet, but the problem is we get emotional about something and force a government to intervene and then we walk away ... We leave the bill for the few user groups that really care or for the poor to suffer through the results of our five minutes of participation ...

EVIL -

 The real evil is the foreign scientist that are using emotional see saw to dictate the donations that would have or could have gone to the poor and legitimate Environmental organisations.