Selling Indulgences: Carbon Offsets are a Greenwash, if there ever was one!
I stoutly refuse to support Carbon offsets (Carbon Neutral). It is just a convenient way for capitalist Western leaders and enterprising greenwash outfits to endorse and condone the unsustainable decadent extravagant livestyle of the Hummer-driving, McDonald loving, callous rrrepublican soccer moms living in suburban gingerbread box homes, all the while proclaiming that all is being done to salvage the situation. Do you seriously believe that they will not plant trees in India/Indonesia if you haven't intervened through a carbon neutral company to plant trees. there. At the end of the day, all the trees that you plant and all the solar panels you install in the formerly plundered countries would hardly matter, in relation to counter the Western consumption.
The problem should be addressed at the root, not its symptoms. Whatever happened to the 3Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle)? If the NO IMPACT MAN can do IT in New York, so can we!
Read what Monbiot has to say on Carbon offsets trading:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2006/10/19/selling-indulgences/
SELLING INDULGENCES
The trade in carbon offsets is an excuse for business as usual
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 18th October 2006
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