Author Topic: Work out your carbon footprint (Read 3672 times)

« **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.

Velvet Darkness · « **Reply #1 on:** February 21, 2007, 09:29:12 pm »

2394.

Not bad eh?

Did you work out yours Bounty?

loulou · « **Reply #2 on:** February 21, 2007, 10:02:11 pm »

This makes no sense to me.

goldencup · « **Reply #3 on:** February 21, 2007, 10:42:21 pm »

2684 for me

smurfboy · « **Reply #4 on:** February 21, 2007, 10:46:13 pm »

I don't see how your income affects it.

goldencup · « **Reply #5 on:** February 21, 2007, 11:05:21 pm »

Nor me. It just seems to mean that the lower your income, the greener you are.

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #6 on:** February 22, 2007, 08:13:06 am »

3367 for me

wjp666 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 22, 2007, 08:29:14 am »

it's all bollocks, that's what i say.

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #8 on:** February 22, 2007, 08:31:41 am »

Indeed.

« **Reply #9 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.

Velvet Darkness · « **Reply #10 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...............

« **Reply #11 on:** February 22, 2007, 05:48:24 pm »

I got 3,006.

Thanks Velvet, you really do have a lovely way of saying things!

Velvet Darkness · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2007, 06:21:45 pm »

Thanks Bounty.

smurfboy · « **Reply #13 on:** February 22, 2007, 06:51:05 pm »

Oh pass me a bucket.

Velvet Darkness · « **Reply #14 on:** February 22, 2007, 06:56:53 pm »

Gladly.

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