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Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: on February 21, 2007, 09:05:02 pm
Want to know how green you are?

CFP = (a² x T + d-a)/7

where a is your age, T is your main mode of transport and d is your annual income.

on foot = 1
train = 2
bus = 3
car = 4
plane = 5

Between 2,000 - 3,000 is green.  Around 3,000 is quite good. over 4,000 is average.  over 5,000 is bad.
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: Velvet Darkness on February 21, 2007, 09:29:12 pm

2394.


Not bad eh?


Did you work out yours Bounty?

Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: loulou on February 21, 2007, 10:02:11 pm

This makes no sense to me.

Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: goldencup on February 21, 2007, 10:42:21 pm
2684 for me
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: smurfboy on February 21, 2007, 10:46:13 pm
I don't see how your income affects it.
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: goldencup on February 21, 2007, 11:05:21 pm
Nor me.  It just seems to mean that the lower your income, the greener you are.
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 22, 2007, 08:13:06 am
3367 for me
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: wjp666 on February 22, 2007, 08:29:14 am
it's all bollocks, that's what i say.
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 22, 2007, 08:31:41 am
Indeed.
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: on February 22, 2007, 01:05:39 pm
A highr income suggests a higher likelihood to use more fossil fuels, more holidays, more expenditure of fuel burning activities.  It does make sense.
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: Velvet Darkness on February 22, 2007, 04:57:02 pm

It's not bollocks it's just a bit of fun.


And like Bounty says people on higher incomes are more likely to have holidays abroad and more than one car per household, not to mention jacuzzis, swimming pools, and ponies for their children, central heating that's on all the time in the winter and air conditioning when it's too warm for the central heating. Larger TV's, fridges, freezers, and many other things that low income families can only gaze longingly at on their small TV sets, like children from a Dickens novel staring in through butchers shop and bakery windows. Their little faces pressed against the panes as their breath steams up the glass...............


Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: on February 22, 2007, 05:48:24 pm
I got 3,006.

Thanks Velvet, you really do have a lovely way of saying things!
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: Velvet Darkness on February 22, 2007, 06:21:45 pm


Thanks Bounty.

Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: smurfboy on February 22, 2007, 06:51:05 pm

Oh pass me a bucket.

Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: Velvet Darkness on February 22, 2007, 06:56:53 pm

Gladly.

Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: on February 22, 2007, 07:04:49 pm
 
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: smurfboy on February 22, 2007, 07:05:47 pm
Not sure why that's funny.
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: on February 22, 2007, 07:08:06 pm
It's not.  It was a laugh in ridicule  
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: Velvet Darkness on February 22, 2007, 07:27:40 pm
I was just trying to be helpful and friendly.
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: on February 22, 2007, 07:43:03 pm
Yes I was ridiculing Smurfy not you. It's OK we have a love hate relationship.
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: loulou on February 22, 2007, 08:55:55 pm

5001


 

Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: on February 22, 2007, 09:09:42 pm
You need to get greener.
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: loulou on February 22, 2007, 09:20:17 pm
I am very green.
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: on February 22, 2007, 09:53:24 pm
Thought you were pink and fluffy?
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: kevvosa on February 22, 2007, 10:08:27 pm
That's just her slippers. 
Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: loulou on February 22, 2007, 10:09:23 pm
 Tantrum 





Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: goldencup on February 22, 2007, 11:07:22 pm

Quote from: bounty hunter
Yes I was ridiculing Smurfy not you. It's OK we have a love hate relationship.


I thought it was more hate hate?

Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: smurfboy on February 23, 2007, 12:41:10 am

I wouldn't go as far as hate - I'm sure Bounty has his heart in the right place really

Title: Work out your carbon footprint
Post by: on February 23, 2007, 06:52:15 am
Awwwwww!