greening hostnine

[amiecn]

Has Hostnine considered their environmental impact?

I would like to continue to grow with HostNine and eventually sell hosting packages...but will be unable to do so unless Hostnine participates in a carbon offset program or other green activities to reduce their impact on the environment.

So...can you be persuaded to go green?

[kobra]

participates in a carbon offset program or other green activities to reduce their impact on the environment.

The above is REAL political - -(Have you Hugged a Tree Today?)

The carbon that was tied up after some catastrophe about 65 million years ago is just being returned to the cycle and bring the "LONG TERM" balance back to status Quo.

Not just the last 100+years that we have been monitoring the weather!!!

If you really believe that you can fight mother nature over the long term - get a life.

Those who hawk "Global Warming" FAIL to let you know that we are coming out of the last Ice Age - - and that means GETTING WARMER!!

It is all a conspiracy to increase taxes for things that can not be controlled over the long term anyway.

[amiecn]

to each their own I suppose...

I guess having two category 5 hurricanes in one season for the first time in recorded history is a fluke...among other things

[kobra]

first time in recorded history

And my point exactly!! We have only been recording this for 100+years and exactly what was it was like the last time this planet came out of a major IceAge? - first I don't think man was around and second there is no record of the conditions.

No argument that the climate is changing or maybe going through a natural cycle. Historically we experience a major drought about every 40-50 years.

The eastern Arizona desert was at the turn of the last century(1880-1910) - grassland and there were no automobiles and the like - stuff just happens.

[Leilani]

Thank Goodness, Kobra someone with a bit of intelligence...well said, sheesh it makes me want to bonk people on the head, with all this global warming nonsense..

[kobra]

Leilani,

As you are UK based, you might want to check your locations elevation above "sea level", as if the cycle predicates this change and the rate is say, 1 ft rise per year (I think that it is much less), and you are say 200 ft above - you might have to relocate in Oh 200 years or so.

[Leilani]

LOL...my mother always said England would disappear under the water..do you think she was psychic? Bless her soul, she was only a few hundred years out...as for me locating, sunny climate is where I am heading with in the next few years...will Cape Town be under water too? Oh well always a big mountain to perch on...

[kobra]

Leilani,

Have you ever considered maybe your "bastard" country the USA??

amiecn,

What market are you in that would "REQUIRE" that a host purchase carbon offsets?

My Opinion, they really need to get a hold of their basic goals. Trade offs are just that.

We all live on the same ball and relocating any impact to another location just does not benefit anyone. "Pollution" is pollution and does not heed our political boundaries. The pundits that propound this "offset" schema are not in full capacity of what this means or if they are they are suggesting that the current rate be locked and no additional sources can be added unless another is shut down.

Now what this means is that on a per capita basis that impact must be reduced over time as the population grows or that population needs to be limited. One or the other as one can not have both.

I for one, am not envisioning giving up the comfort of central climate control or the many other modern conveniences that we enjoy in favor of living like we did 100-200 years ago.

We are increasingly populating the planet at a rate not before experienced and living longer on top of that. But to limit planet population ?? Who and what authority would mandate this?

Maybe Mom Nature and "Bird Flu" will bring the world population back into check?

[danuk]

oh boy! this green stuff has really got to peoples heads.

[amiecn]

I can see this is heated topic for some of you...so I am going to respectfully withdraw from this conversation.