Here's Your Sustainable Life, Serf

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Credit Suisse, the big Swiss Bank, just issued a 57 page “ESG Report” titled “Treeprint: When emissions turn personal” [PDF]. Here is the announcement and summary.

The gimmick is to express the CO₂ emissions of various activities in terms of the number of trees required to offset them: “ ‘Treeprint’ refers to the number of mature trees (and their carbon-storage potential) needed in order to offset emissions associated with a certain activity. Once consumers appreciate the Treeprint necessary to counterbalance their carbon footprint, they can reduce certain activities accordingly, or plant the calculated number of trees in order to create a net carbon footprint.”

For example, here are the figures for various meals…

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…travel…

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…and household activities.

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Then they survey the lifestyles of various consumers: “low travel online”, “upwardly mobile”, “high carbon”, and “travel focused”, calculating the treeprint of each component of their lives.

Finally, they sketch the “sustainable lifestyle” consumer who meets the CO₂ budget of 2500–3300 kg per year. This is a long table in small type on page 51 of the report. The French magazine Les Echos created this infographic in their article, «Climat, COP26. Auprès de mon arbre» hitting some of the “high” points of this “sustainable”, “net zero” style of life.

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Enjoy your impoverished, smelly life, serf!

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How many trees did Credit Suisse plant to offset the energy wasted in creating the noxious emissions/miasmas which permeate this drivel. Speaking of carbon, a sprinkle of activated charcoal might sop up some of the funk.

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It really is sad that so many of those in the driving seats of the global economy apparently were sick and missed that day in high school when the teacher explained the Carbon Cycle on which life on Earth depends.

But surely even a banker must ask herself – What happens to the carbon in all those sincerely-planted birch trees when they get old & die?

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ESG = malinvestment to line the pockets of global elitists. (Eco-lies to Send wealth to Globalists).

You may lose all your capital – but don’t worry – you’ll “save the planet” (errr perhaps save globalists lifestyle) …

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After reading some papers on the energy return on energy of solar, I highly doubt that bankers are able to do the required math. Not that it is hard math. It is just that the “scientists” don’t even seem to be able to do real math. The IEA doesn’t think the energy associated with installing a solar panel should count. The batteries required for solar don’t count. You don’t use the proven life of the device. You don’t use proven efficiency. It is maintenance free.

I wonder, for example, if in the hated cow gets any credit for the carbon reduction they arguably provide?

This is just a hick’s observation. A pasture that is not grazed deteriorates. It thins. It is weed infested. It supports less bugs, less wildlife and has poor soil. If properly grazed the grass stand improves dramatically. Weed control is diminished and often eliminated. Basically the whole ecosystem is pretty dependent on the lowly livestock. The soil … microorganisms, fungus and such are improved which I suspect actually does allow capture and holding of carbon permanently.

A good chunk of ground is suited for grazing and not crop land. Those vegan meals won’t be grown on this ground. I am too lazy to calculate the calorie deficit that will need to be made up elsewhere. Given fertilizer also requires hydrocarbons, the yield loss on existing vegan ground won’t help.

But on the positive side. The loss of wildlife that exhales pollution will help get to net zero. I think there are too many birds anyway and who ever thought a skunk was worth having around.

Maybe we can use the ground as graveyards for the malnourished.

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The biggest lobbyist in the EU is this company:

Here are their topics:

Proposal on Substantiating Green Claims, Product Environmental Footprint, EU Textiles strategy, New consumer agenda, Proposal on empowering consumers for green transition,Sustainable Products Initiative incl. digital Product Passports, Circular Electronics Initiative, Eco-design measures, Safe and sustainable by design, Packaging and packaging waste directive, Single Use Plastics guidelines, Plastics tax, Batteries and waste batteries regulation,Waste Shipment Regulation (+ Basel Convention & Guidelines),Review of Waste Framework Regulation,Zero Pollution Action Plan,Water Framework Directive,Industrial Emissions Directive,Revision of Construction Products Regulation,Chemical Strategy for Sustainability, Classification, Labelling and Packaging,REACH Regulation,PFAS Roadmap,Microplastics Restriction,Polymer registration,Mixture assessment factor,Occupational Health and Safety Interface,Cosmetics Products Regulation,EU Farm to fork Strategy,Proposal for EU targets for waste reduction,Revision of FCMs legislation,Food additives regulation,Revision of Sustainable Use Pesticides Directive,Revision of Regulations under the PPPs framework,Emissions Trading System,Market Stability Reserve,Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism,Effort Sharing Regulation,Social Climate Fund,Energy Efficiency Directive,Energy Taxation Directive,Methane Regulation,Gas Regulation,Gas Directive,Renewable Energy Directive (RED III),Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD),Batteries Regulation,FUELEU Maritime,REFUEL Aviation,Smart and Sustainable Mobility Strategy,Trans-European Transport Networks Regulation,CO2 standards for light vehicles,Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR),Heavy Duty Vehicle (HDV) CO2 Emissions Standards (end of 2022),New European Urban Mobility Framework,CountEmissions EU,Euro7 for cars, vans, lorries and buses,Intelligent Transport Systems Directive (ITS),Carbon Removals Certification Framework (due end of 2022),Horizon Europe,EU4Health,European Health Union,European Pharmaceutical Strategy,EU Pharmaceutical Legislation,EU Health Technology Assessment,EU Beating Cancer Plan,EU serious cross-border threats to health,EU Extension EMA and ECDC mandates,EU Disability Strategy 2021-2030,EU NCD Initiative,Cross-border Healthcare Directive,Medical Devices Regulation, Blood, Tissue, Cell Directive,European Health Data Space,Clinical Trials Directive,EU Farm to Fork,EU Alcohol Strategy,MiFID/R review,European Single Access Point ESAP,Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive AIFMD,EU Money Market Funds Regulation MMFR,Central Securities Depository Regulation CSDR,Solvency II review,Digital Operational Resilience Act DORA,Markets in Crypto-assets (MiCA) Regulation,Transfer of Funds Regulation,European Long-Term Investment Fund ELTIF,Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities UCITS,Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) and the Capital Requirements Directive,Consumer Credit Directive,EU Listing Act,PSD2 review,Digital Euro,Retail Investment Strategy,Digital Finance Strategy,Taxonomy,Capital Markets Union,Benchmark Regulation,Open Finance Consultation,European market infrastructure regulation EMIR,ESG Ratings,Packaged retail investment and insurance products PRIIPs,EU Green Bond Standards,Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive CSRD,Anti-money laundering AML package,Sustainable Corporate Governance,European Chips Act,Artificial Intelligence Act,Digital Finance Package, Digital euro,Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive,Digital Market Act,Digital Services Act,Data Act,Network Information Security Directive,EU Data Strategy,In-Vehicle Data,Action Plan on Digitalisation of the Energy Sector,Network Code on Cybersecurity of Cross-border energy flows, FDI screening

It’s largely lucrative Gr€€nwashing, not actual sustainability or care for the environment.

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Hypothesis: The left is a giant, never-prosecuted RICO outfit, which pwns the enforcement authorities at every level.

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