Do you think Carbon offsetting is the biggest con ever?

Question

I do! Paying extra money to Research ways to slow Carbon emmissions! We already know how to do it, Stop using any internal combustion engined vehicles a stop trying to heat our houses or cook anything! EASY! CON!

Answer 1

Yes it's a con by the pseudo-scientist to take someones money for their pet project.

For example, Al Gore defends his electricity consumption in his palatial house (he uses the amount of electricity in a month that is equal to an average guys annual usage) this way: because he buys carbon credits!! What a crock.

Isn't this like saying it's ok to kill someone because I am paying a hooker to have a baby to offset it?

Also have you noticed, the ones really into "global warming" and "carbon footprints" and "carbon credits" are people like Richard Branson who made SO much money with Virgin Airlines? How big of a carbon footprint do you think he has left behind??? And now he wants you to walk or ride a bike everywhere?? while he and Al Gore fly around on private jets????

It's a crock.

Answer 2

I don't think it has to be a con, but as implemented by the EU so far it has been worse than useless, because people think it is working when it is not. Using the free market to implement environmental initiatives has actually worked in the past for air pollution, and there is no reason that carbon offsetting shouldn't work. However, there is no reason that the government should be paying for it, let the people that are producing carbon emissions pay for those emissions, then they will find their own ways to reduce them.

Answer 3

I think the whole of the Global Warming Industry is a complete con. Look who is behind it: all manner of failed politicians such as Forest Gore, defunct pop stars, and all these pseudo charities which are no more than institutions where the middle class park their unemployable kids. There are lots of reasons why we should move away from using fossil fuels and we will do so in this century without the micro-managing of that control freak Gordon Brown.

Answer 4

I've got to say all this talk about Carbon offsetting and carbon footprints (a phrase that really bugs me) is yet another example of the well off but nerdy and bored/boring element of Britain acting like sheep. It's a new fad and everyone seems to be leaping onto it. What I want to know is whether they'd really all be willing to give up cars and holidays abroad and computers and barbecues and luxuries if it really came down to it. I doubt it.

Answer 5

* Widespread instances of people and organisations buying worthless credits that do not yield any reductions in carbon emissions.

* Industrial companies profiting from doing very little – or from gaining carbon credits on the basis of efficiency gains from which they have already benefited substantially.

* Brokers providing services of questionable or no value.

* A shortage of verification, making it difficult for buyers to assess the true value of carbon credits.

* Companies and individuals being charged over the odds for the private purchase of European

sounds like a con thought up by the oil industry to repent there past sins

Answer 6

I don't quite know what carbon offsetting is, but I do support initiatives that make the environment a better place -
Scientists have now proved that global warming is caused by humans, so we need to take action to prevent future harm. What that action is, is the difficult point.

Answer 7

can't really add anything useful on the subject,just to say all this carbon/warming/enviro friendly bollocks is seriously annoying
Whats happened? Have all the whales/baby seals been saved?Threat of nuclear annihilation eased?Heavy metals,remember them? A 60's threat to human survival
In 10 years mankind will be causing a different threat to our own survival.Something like too much microwave radiation is deflecting the ionosphere,total psuedo-scientific horse-sh1t.......makes me laugh(in despair).A guy on here the other day quoted the FACT that all the worlds glaciers had already disappeared and sea levels had risen by 2 metres in the last decade
One small rant left...............I really couldn't give a flying f0ck how many tigers are left in india.If I am naked in the punjab with no gun and a sign round my neck saying in tigerish Free Food Here ..........one tiger is too many

Answer 8

Those of you who don't believe that we need to cut carbon emissions are the same people who voted for our current knucklehead in the Whitehouse, so I don't expect any rational or intelligent thoughts from you...Once again, you people know better than scientists and researchers...what a bunch of losers...