Comments on: Do Carbon Offsets Work for Travel?

By: RPK

RPK — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:20:27 +0000

Algore sets up a company for profit to sell off sets and then tries to make it UN policy that you have to buy offsets from his company. Sweet but what does it have to do with a real problem?

By: BigFire

BigFire — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:00:18 +0000

Like buying indulgence of the Catholic Church of the past, buying carbon offset is only a way to make yourself feel better. Your money is going somewhere.

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By: Stormy70

Stormy70 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:02:05 +0000

I think it is just a clever way of bilking the guilty for their money. As an American who believes in the capitalist system, I wish I had thought of it first.

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:11:25 +0000

Take it from the expert in global warming, Al Gore. Buy your carbon offsets from yourself. Then you know where the money is going. I'm not sure if paying yourself is for profit or not for profit, but its pretty hard to argue that you disagree with how the money is handled.

By: cirby

cirby — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:11:04 +0000

The big question that nobody seems interested in:

When someone pays a carbon offset fee to plant trees, who owns the trees? If they're going to be cut down in ten or fifteen years to burn in someone's fireplace, that's not carbon-neutral, that's tree farming.