Tim Knowles
2 min readJul 22, 2019

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Just another reason to implement rationing. Live under your ration and you are guilt free.

I won’t make my family sacrifice in vain. It needs to be a shared sacrifice.

I wish people would stop with the 90 company thing.

These 90 companies have individually emitted more carbon into the atmosphere than most countries have.

It misrepresents the facts. People need to read the study, the one liner distorts the analysis.

People, individuals caused the carbon emissions not the companies.

The companies enabled our emissions but we drove the cars that burned the gas, we ran the appliances that used the electricity and we ate the food that was created in environmentally damaging ways. Almost a quarter of all GHG emissions is from farming. None of those 90 companies is a farm.

Did you even read the study you linked? If so how could you in good conscience frame its findings the way you did?

Those companies produce the Oil, Gas, Coal but we are the ones that burn it.

I don’t feel much guilt over my polluting, my footprint. I will stay ahead of the curve. When others start to sacrifice I will sacrifice more than them. I advocate for rationing and I have reduced my footprints but I am not a martyr and I will not martyr my family. The rich need to set an example and when they pollute less than the rest of us maybe then the rest of us will do more.

TEK

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Tim Knowles
Tim Knowles

Written by Tim Knowles

Worked in our nations space programs for more than 40 years

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