[3AngelaD]

...all that is left to drive offset sales is guilt and marketing... and stupidity.

[goldstategop]

Its just shuffling money around - which won't reduce C02 emissions one percentage point. There are useless mitigation schemes like this which will saddle the economy with enormous costs and which won't make our environment any cleaner.

"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

[alloysteel]

These “global warming carbon offsets” might as well be pet rocks. or Cabbage Patch (tm) dolls, for the difference they will make to either the climate, or the total amount of energy that will be consumed by a world that has rapid industrialization going on in many and varied localities. The US, and most of the European countries, and probably a couple of Asian countries, have the available resources and technological capabilities to effectively make most manufacturing and commercial enterprises “carbon neutral”, even to some degree the non-commercial aspects of life in these countries. But what difference will that make in Mumbai? Or the Ural Mountains? or Shanghai? Absolutely none, as it turns out.

If excess CO2 is going to be absorbed from the atmosphere and sequestered, the cultivation of rapidly growing plants and making the industrial products from these plants an economically feasible market product, will do vastly more than “carbon credits”. These “carbon credits” are a scam.

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