Saturday, December 22, 2007
Posted by Roberto
6:04 PM
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CARBON OFFSETTING - IS IT CHEATING?
Cheatneutral.com is a brilliant satire on carbon offsetting!
Cheatneutral Logic:
From now on, you can calmly tell your long-suffering partner that you've cheated, but it's ok - you've paid a small amount to a website which will reinvest that money into virtuous people who will pledge to do no cheating, on your behalf. The amount of cheating in the world equalizes, and everything is ok!!!
FIVE ways that Cheatneutral is like Carbon Offsetting:
1.
Cheatneutral tries to make it seem acceptable to cheat on your partner. In the same way, carbon offsetting tries to make it acceptable to carry on emitting excess carbon.
2.
Cheatneutral doesn't really do much to reduce the amount of cheating in the world. Carbon offsetting does very little to reduce global carbon emissions.
3.
It seems impossible to measure how much harm cheating on someone does. With carbon offsetting, there is currently no practically feasible way of measuring how much carbon offset projects actually save.
4.
Having Cheatneutral's services available could actually encourages you to cheat more. If the carbon offsetters persuade you that it's possible to offset your emissions, you'll carry on emitting excess carbon through your lifestyle rather than think about reducing your emissions.
5.
Cheatneutral is fundamentally the wrong way to go about solving problems with your relationships. Carbon offsetting is fundamentally the wrong way to go about tackling climate change.
TWO ways which Cheatneutral is not like Carbon Offsetting:
1.
Cheatneutral doesn't make any money. Offset companies in the voluntary carbon market take a cut of every transaction and make a profit.
2.
Cheatneutral is a joke. Carbon offsetting presents itself as a credible solution to climate change, described by the government's chief scientist Sir David King as "the most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism..."
Source:
CheatNeutral.com
CheatNeutral.com Video
Links:
Carbon Trade Watch
Action Carbone
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