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Someone here called it for what it is...a form of ecoslavery. The term that came about, ecoslavery, had to do with people being exploited. The scams are huge and detrimental to many innocent people.

Somewhere in the Indian countryside, a farmer is about to repay Mr Cameron’s debt to the planet. Climate Care’s latest enterprise is to provide “treadle pumps” to poor rural families so they can get water on to their land without using diesel power. The pumps are worked by stepping on pedals. If a peasant treads for two hours a day, it will take at least three years to offset the CO2 from Mr Cameron’s return flight to India...

...But the treadle pump initiative raises the moral predicament of offsetting: decadent Westerners paying for their pollution to be neutralised by people in developing countries. “That particular project is an outrage because it’s so exploitative,” said Jutta Kill, of the green campaigning organisation Fern. “It’s just disgraceful.”

Customers of the Cooperative Bank will soon be making payments towards Indian peasants’ “human energy”,

(excerpt http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2337485.ece )

Neat and nifty little companies are being set-up all around the globe to sell decadent westerners Carbon Credits. But are they really just creating a new form of slavery. Eco-slavery?

An excerpt from a recent article of the UK Times Online describes the fate of one peasant in Uttar Pradash as he is given a treadle pump to offset the carbon emissions of David Cameron.

The job of the peasant is use the treadle to pump water for his farm 2 hours a day for the next 3 years. That doesn’t sound too bad does it? Let us consider this a different way though. The description works out to 2190 hours of human energy pumping, which equates to 54.75 weeks of work at 40 hours a week. So, we basically charged this peasant over $15,444 in American dollars for a human energy treadle pump. At that price we could have supplied him with a solar/wind powered pump! It is the very same type of pump banned in British prisons.

This to me is a type of slavery.

Define Eco-Slavery. Let us define it as the abuse of human energy to offset human impacts on the environment.

It is for this very reason we need immediate regulation of the Carbon Credit Industries springing up all around the world. Right now these Carbon Credit dealers run vastly shady deals and consumers have no way of knowing how their money is being used. Indeed the very article from the UK Times makes it sound like every thing is just fine for our peasant in Uttar Pradesh.

In actuality well meaning environmentalists are abusing people in third world countries.