Glamourous MLB teams buy into "carbon offset" scam while fans can't afford gas to get to a game
Appearance and reality are different, as is spending someone else's money vs spending your own. An MLB.com press release today lauds Earth Day. A great "progessive," Ira Einhorn, was one of the founders of Earth Day.
- Einhorn also murdered a woman in his bedroom, fled the US, and hid out in France for many years before finally being brought back and put in prison. Article in Salon.com. 8/14/02.
- First among teams in the article is the Seattle Mariners who've allocated precious financial and personnel resources into the "carbon offsets" tragedy. (Despite that the global "biofuel" industry is now causing global famine and rationing even in the US). MLB.com says the Mariners' offset broker is "NativeEnergy."
- NativeEnergy has worked closely with Al Gore and his movie according to their report from Indian Country, 1/3/07:
- NativeEnergy has been majority-owned by the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy since 2005. NativeEnergy, Participant Productions and Paramount Pictures Classics were able to offset 100 percent of the carbon dioxide pollution from air and ground travel, production energy use, associated with the making of ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' according the NativeEnergy Web site.
- the recently released ''An Inconvenient Truth'' DVD, works to decrease the amount of carbon dioxide that enters the Earth's atmosphere every day."...
- The headline in the Chicago Tribune about the environmental crime says "the bus driver" of the Dave Matthews band dumped 800 pounds of human waste onto boat passengers and into a river. Near the end of the article it notes the driver had been a long-time employee of the band, and they were sorry "one of our buses was involved" in such a thing.
- More evidence that saying you are "Green" doesn't make you better, or even "progressive:"
- The company that supplied all generator power for the Live Earth Concert in July 2007 was fined for pouring poisonous chemicals in a river killing much animal life. The company Bio Tech Oils UK had previously won awards.
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