Quote Originally Posted by Seraphim View Post
Wait a second.....



Wait a second.........are you saying the $10,000 a year I spend buying carbon offsets aren't actually going to save the planet?!

I'm going to hijack my own thread.

Carbon offsets are perhaps the biggest con in recent times. We have a problem with output and consumption, so what do we do? Do we reduce our consumption so tackling the root cause? No fear! Or do we create some trumped-up quasi-economic system of paying money to assuage our own guilt about how much bloody unnecessary consumption we perpetuate in our throwaway society?

Pay a little cash and you can [1] feel good about 'doing something', [2] not compromise your lifestyle one bit, [3] point to this hugely pointless scheme which is failing in its mission and then somehow equate it with the idea that climate change by man is therefore bogus.

Damn, I hate carbon offset schemes!