Posted: Nov 27, 2018 9:26 pm
Cito di Pense wrote:felltoearth wrote:
The irony here is that carbon offsets uses self-interst as a tool for it to be effective. IOW jamest has once again defeated his own argument.
And you believe that. Let me introduce you to the guy who thinks a medium is in communication with the guy's dead cat.
It's not self-interest at all. None of us will live long enough to reap the rewards. It's anxiety and fear of disaster. You know where that word comes from: "Bad star". Offsets are bought in the interest of posterity or some other airy-fairy notion. I don't have any posterity, didn't want any, and so my posterity is not leaving a carbon footprint.
Are you cluing in to the carbon footprint of raising some git to adulthood? Offset that, my friends.
Tell me about irony, again.
Wrong end of the telescope. If you charge for carbon, businesses will look to methods to reduce costs, ideally associated with producing carbon. Do enough of a reduction and it becomes a net benefit. That’s the self-interest aspect. The alternative is to shrug and say “meh.”