Somebody else will do it
Sound familiar?
As a race we have become too dependent on “the next person” This is why we are now in the mess we are, in terms of climate change. Everybody thinks that it is not their problem and I personally think that many people are relying on necessity being the mother of invention.
People think that somehow we are going to invent some carbon sequestering machine which will suck up all the carbon in the atmosphere and save the world. But I, like many others am beginning to become worried I think that we are starting to come to the point of no return.
If deforestation continues at the same rate as it currently is (13 MILLION HECTARES PER YEAR!) we are going to have no trees left. Let’s not forget that trees give us the most basic element for survival in Oxygen. They release moisture into the air which provides us with the cool climate in which we live and grow crops.
As Carbon levels in the atmosphere increase as does the temperature of the world. Now when I say that a 1 degree increase in world temperatures is imminent you may think “great I hate the British summer anyway!” Well what if I then said that a further 1 degree increase in temperature would start a dominoes effect in terms of climate change, and could lead to the end of life as we know it?
Now the first degree is unavoidable, because of the way we have lived our post industrialization lives we have to live with that. We became too dependent on life’s luxuries. We, in the West imported as much as we could, without thinking about the implications of how much carbon the transport was producing. When we aren’t importing, our large scale mechanization leads to further carbon emissions, even for the simplest of jobs.
Now there is a way we can avoid the 2nd degree in temperature rise and this is to decrease our carbon emissions by over 60% in the next 10 years, yes it’s a lot but it is vital! Reforestation/Afforestation is a start, invest in a reforestation/afforestation project which will make sure that the trees in a monitored patch of land are not illegally cut down and are, therefore sequestering carbon. The companies that run these schemes concentrate on educating the local people and showing them that the forest is actually worth more alive than dead. This is because the company is able to trade their excess carbon credits earned, from the profit they can pay the local people that are looking after the forest.
Because of this, here at Fresh Invest we have been working hard on expanding our alternative investments section we are now offering investments in 2 different types of carbon reducing project.
One is our Carbon Credit Investment. This is an opportunity for our investor to purchase carbon credits at a massively reduced price, from a company whose aim is to protect rainforests and then trade the excess carbon credits from it.
The second is an opportunity for our investor to invest in British farmland planted with a renewable biomass. This crop is then sold to a renewable power plant to be co-burnt with coal giving you a small but consistent yield. The main advantage of investing in UK farmland, apart from the obvious reduction in UK carbon emissions is, Security! It has shown consistent growth and is in ever increasing demand.
At the end of the day if people don’t start investing in projects like this it really could mean the end of the world!
For more info on any of our opportunities email or freephone 0800 043 69 56
