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Enviro-Scam
Some green credits aren't giving the offsets they claim to be
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I think a big part of the problem (apart from accountability) is time; these reductions (which would in many cases have happened anyway) are not immediate removal to offset - it's the potential offset. |
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There will always be someone to take advantage of the fears of others.
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Like Republicans did with the war on terror?
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Valid points raised in the OP, and recently I find myself in the surprising position of largely agreeing with an opinion piece of Charles Krauthammer:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...599714,00.html ".......purchasing carbon credits is an incentive to burn even more fossil fuels, since now it is done under the illusion that it's really cost-free to the atmosphere. Second, it is a way for the rich to export the real costs and sacrifices of pollution control to the poorer segments of humanity in the Third World. (Apparently, Hollywood's plan is to make up for that by adopting every last one of their children.) For example, GreenSeat, a Dutch carbon-trading outfit, buys offsets from a foundation that plants trees in Uganda's Mount Elgon National Park to soak up the carbon emissions of its rich Western patrons. Small problem: expanding the park encroaches on land traditionally used by local farmers. As a result, reports the New York Times, "villagers living along the boundary of the park have been beaten and shot at, and their livestock has been confiscated by armed park rangers." All this so that swimming pools can be heated and Maseratis driven with a clear conscience in the fattest parts of the world." |
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I'm surprised to see so many conservatives skeptical of such an inherently "conservative" solution to global warming. After all, what capitalist doesn't adore a trading market?
But, really, I'd agree. Carbon trading is as much of a joke as back when certain people in the Pentagon expressed an interest in "terror trading." But while the outcry was loud enough to stop the latter, there seems to have never been enough to stop the former, unfortunately. |
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