Comments on: Carbon Controversies in Costa Rica http://www.coha.org/carbon-controversies-in-costa-rica/ COHA is an NGO specialized in monitoring Latin American and Canadian Relations for more than 30 years... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:22:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: maxajl http://www.coha.org/carbon-controversies-in-costa-rica/comment-page-1/#comment-32244 maxajl Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:01:24 +0000 http://www.coha.org/?p=6261#comment-32244 Rachel-- This is an excellent corrective, much appreciated, so don't take the following comments as scholarly nit-pickings. But a few points. <i>One</i>, the NEF study actually put Costa Rica's ecological footprint--not its carbon footprint--above the sustainable level in terms of global per-capita hectares. In their study, the NEF researchers themselves admit that the measuring system is probably overly-generous to humanity [perversely, then, anti-generous in a funny way], not allowing for how much of the biosphere needs to be totally fallow in order for it to re-generate. I don't mean to suggest that you wrote the contrary, but someone could get that impression. <em>To view full comment <a href="http://cohaforum.blogspot.com/2009/08/concerning-rachel-woods-costa-rica.html" rel="nofollow">click here</a></em> Rachel–
This is an excellent corrective, much appreciated, so don’t take the following comments as scholarly nit-pickings. But a few points.

One, the NEF study actually put Costa Rica’s ecological footprint–not its carbon footprint–above the sustainable level in terms of global per-capita hectares. In their study, the NEF researchers themselves admit that the measuring system is probably overly-generous to humanity [perversely, then, anti-generous in a funny way], not allowing for how much of the biosphere needs to be totally fallow in order for it to re-generate. I don’t mean to suggest that you wrote the contrary, but someone could get that impression.

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