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Posted on 09/02/2007 10:51:29 AM PDT by goldstategop
For all the money spent, nobody can say if the offsets have done much to alleviate global warming....
Without government regulation and mandatory caps on emissions, all that is left to drive offset sales is guilt and marketing. Offset companies charge what the market will bear.
"How much are you willing to spend to feel good or to impress your neighbors?" asked Marland, of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
For Katy Hansen, a 29-year-old law school student, the answer was $429.99.
She wanted to offset the travel of the guests to her May wedding in Madison, Wis., and paid San Francisco-based offset company TerraPass Inc. to neutralize 40 tons of carbon dioxide.
"The wedding felt out of character in a way," she said. "It was more overdone than anything in our lives."
It was a well-intended gesture, but one that some scientists say does carry a price. Offsets are so convenient that they may foster a false sense that global warming can be easily solved when the hard and expensive work remains undone.
A United Nations panel recently concluded that actually reducing emissions to avoid the worst perils of global warming would cost trillions of dollars a year over the next several decades.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
There are two sad observations one can take from this.
The first observation is that twenty-nine years and law school is not enough to cause one to think critically nor does it make them less gullible.
The second observation is that prices that end in $0.99 or $0.95 are almost always a marketing ploy and not based on calculations of actual cost.
Since the average human being generates about two pounds of Carbon Dioxide per day by breathing, the best way to become “Carbon Neutral” is to stop breathing.
And check out the logo with the cows.
BTW, this indulgence deals with CH4 (methane), not carbon.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I wonder if anyone would have a problem with someone selling indulgences that promise to not drink beer and not eat beans and sauerkraut once a week.
These would be just as valid, IMHO.
Ah, but you see, there are so many of us and so very few of them, and we’re in the wrong and they’re in the right, and that makes it all okay.
Just think of the value of having a list of these ignorant folks who would buy into such BS.
Selling a list of their names to every conman, bunco artist, San Francisco bridge seller, etc., could bring in some significant income for a motivated data collector.
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