[Dilbert San Diego]

The similarity between sales of carbon offsets and medieval church indulgences is striking, not least because there’s about equal proof that the two actually work.

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I’ve always wondered about this concept. It’s supposed to be beneficial to buy carbon credits, but it always gets me that you are still producing the same “evil” carbon pollution footprint as before. You have simply paid someone for the continuing priviledge of having the allegedly evil carbon footprint. You haven’t done anything to reduce your own emissions by buying a carbon credit.

[goldstategop]

Well its a Ponzi scam. There's no evidence that it does ANYTHING to reduce CO2 emissions output. But it does make guilty people feel better about themselves and liberals carry around with them an awful lot of guilt. So going along with silly schemes like this is their way of alleviating the unresolved conflicts within themselves. It isn't really about showing how much the liberal cares about Nature.

"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

[kitkat]

***I’ve always wondered about this concept. It’s supposed to be beneficial to buy carbon credits, but it always gets me that you are still producing the same “evil” carbon pollution footprint as before. You have simply paid someone for the continuing priviledge of having the allegedly evil carbon footprint. You haven’t done anything to reduce your own emissions by buying a carbon credit.***

Dilbert, you’ve got that exactly right. The same amount of carbon is involved, whether you create it or the person you sell your carbon rights to creates it.

IT’S A BIG SCAM, and Al Gore and others are getting richer and richer by promoting it.