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Carbon rationing
Summary from Canada, from articles in English
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A CRAG, or Carbon Rationing Action Group, is a group of people who measure the amount of carbon they consume, their " carbon footprint and work on ways to reduce it. (article 1)
Call it Weight Watchers for the carbon set, CRAG are not unlike the so-called cap-and-trade systems that some governments are thinking of imposing on those big industrial users that spout too much CO2 into the atmosphere. (article 1)
Hayden discovered CRAGs while living in London, England, and studying for his PhD on social responses to climate change. (article 1)
The Islington CRAG was started by Andy Ross, a civil engineer and "freegan" (someone who uses alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources). (article 1)
We felt you needed political action but one thing is for sure, the government is not going to solve global warming on its own and nor are individuals. (article 1)
For example, a Toronto-London flight expends approximately 1,500 kilograms of carbon dioxide per person, which by some calculations, amounts to roughly 25 per cent of one's yearly " limit. (article 1)
Rationing or reduction, call it what you will but the tough work begins in trying to burn less carbon. (article 1)
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Source articles
- Carbon rationing (cbc.ca, 06/05/2008, 908 words)
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