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| offsetting our carbon to save the world? |
I have recently chanced upon an article that strongly endorses the idea of carbon offsetting by the Climate Friendly company. The proposal is simple. Climate Friendly will be offering services to calculate the amount of carbon an individual or business emits, then offsets this by investing in a renewable energy project to prevent the equivalent amount from being released into the atmosphere. Sounds like a clever idea, doesn't it?
Well, it essentially comes down to the penny. For every international and domestic flight we aboard, each individual will need to pay a surcharge to cover for the cost of an offset. Same applies to driving cars, taking public transport, cooking et cetera et cetera. Apparently this proposal empowers each one of us polluters of the world to take responsibilty for our own emissions. How realistic is this solution to climate change? I have my doubts. Surely this is some sort of solution, but simply a solution to allow customers to rid their guilt of poluting the world, without truly attempting to change their environmentally destructive behaviours. It is likened to "giving money to the RSPCA so you can keep kicking your dog."
Be a judge for yourself. |
posted by sciurine @ 10:13 PM   |
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