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Carbon Offsets: Buying Your Way Out of Responsibility
alternet.org — While Smith believes many people genuinely buy offsets out of concern for climate change, he sees businesses using them in a more cynical and calculating way. "It gives them a sophisticated veneer of environmental sensitivity they don't deserve..."
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- ybfree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am glad this article was written because I was just getting ready to engage in carbon offset process, and now I have plenty to think about.
HOWEVER, why is it with progressive movement it's "perfection" or nothing?
This is exactly why things take so long to get done.
I once read somewhere that a movement is differing ideas on the same issue pushing along at once.
So why can't a person start out with carbon offsets and write to governments to change legislation (which takes just as long as tree to grow) at the same time?
These "think tanks" need to take a moment,stop attacking, and start working with the industry and those seeking to do something good!- tplatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Be very careful where you engage in the carbon offset process. Sometimes you may end up doing more harm than good (planting trees at high latitude, for example).
- pisces87saw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The progressive movement isn't "perfection or nothing".
What the article is trying to say is that people might use carbon offsets in place of doing something more meaningful and important. It's like being lazy; people feel like they're doing something, even if that something isn't quite right.
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