Posts Tagged ‘Carbon offsets’

The Carbon Offset Controversy

James Nash :
Every day people do dozens of things that put more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This gas is the main perpetrator of climate change, yet activities like driving, heating your house, air travel, and electricity consumption, are hard to stop. Individuals that want to reduce their carbon footprint, the amount of carbon [...]

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Media Promotion Of Carbon Offsets

James Nash : Typically, green represents the deadly sin of envy, but with the media’s help it now also stands for hypocrisy.In this case, the hypocrisy is media promotion of buying carbon offsets – giving a donation to an energy-saving project as penance for guzzling gas or jetting off to an exotic location. With Al [...]

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