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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:00 AM

I hate buzzwords! It's not "carbon," it's "carbon dioxide"

And what about these stupid yellow ribbons everywhere? I hate that too!
By Cary Tennis

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  • Wednesday, July 18, 2007 08:59 AM

    so maybe we should be saying 'organic (compound) neutral'?

    Isn't what makes something "organic" is presence of carbon?

    I'm just saying. I move that until we clarify whether to call things "carbon neutral" or "carbon dioxide neutral" that we put off all efforts to actually combat climate change. Let's be sure to focus on what is key, i.e. semantics.

    After all, why reduce an issue to something simple that the hoi polloi can understand. Be precise! Don't take the advice of C students even if it is potentially right (and even if perhaps it occurred when 80% of Harvard Grads did not graduate with honors).

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