re: #65 Sharmuta

I don’t know, but it has a lot of potential, and is the solution you asked for thinking it didn’t exist.

To be blunt, it’s a solution to a problem I don’t think exists…or at best is overblown. Why resort to fake trees when governments are trying to give themselves the power to tell people what kind of light bulbs they can use, what kind of cars they can drive, what temperature they can keep the thermostat…and if the reallly wanna do some good for the environment, they can throw some money into an unregulated carbon offset scheme that will make subprime lending look like a wise investment by comparison. A few words from cap and trade’s biggest pom-pom waver here only seems to confirm that.

re: #66 philosophus invidius

I remember hearing somewhere that these palm-oil plantations that they’re setting up in Malaysia might be eligible for carbon offset funds, even though they’re clearing away aready existing rainforests to expand the plantations. What a fucking joke- they get paid handsomely for the oil harvested and they get carbon offset funds for clearing away swaths of rainforests…

And these examples of genius are supposed to save the world?