Can’t see the trees for the carbon offset?
You know that niggling environmental worry you had when you last got on a plane? Well, according to this month’s print edition of New Internationalist [NI 391] you were right not to feel so smug about salving your carbon conscience with the offsets you were going to buy next time.
Turns out, carbon offsets - planting trees to soak up the carbon caused by our jet-setting hedonistic lifestyles - don’t work. In fact offsets cause even more problems (just ask Coldplay) affecting the water table in dry lands, non-native planting, even genetic engineering of carbon guzzlers.
What we need to do is change our habits and attitude to the environmental damage.
So do I tear up the tickets for the weekend break to Valletta or what?
Posted by Cptn
If you liked this story, you could buy us a coffeeJune 21st, 2006
