Carbon offsets are a CROC: Should you be entitled to do something bad to the environment?

[Better Believe It]

Offsets are a CROC
September 15, 2009

If you do something good for the environment, does it make any sense that you should then be entitled to do something bad to the environment?

Of course it doesn’t. And yet that is basically what corporate polluters are pushing for as climate legislation makes its way through Congress. Rather than making required pollution cuts, they want to use “carbon offsets,” which would essentially allow them to continue their dirty, polluting business as usual while outsourcing green jobs and cleaner skies elsewhere…mostly overseas!

Amazingly, despite the fact that offsets could totally undermine our efforts to combat global warming –letting polluters increase greenhouse gas emissions for years to come – there is now a group out there advocating carbon offsets be made available to individuals, so that regular folks can also be entitled to do something bad to the environment if they do something good for it. The group is called the Carbon Regulatory Offset Committee (CROC). Check out this video from their charismatic spokesman, Carl Cordova:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7RU6_WCF94&feature=player_embedded

http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/greenpeaceusa_blog/2009/09/15/offsets_are_a_croc

[Oregone]

1. Great to see an environmental group take a stand on this crap

They totally ruined the power of the climate bill, an open the system up to potential fraud.

[Romulox]

2. They're the exact analogue to "indulgences" handed out to the wealthy by the Catholic church. nt

[Brickbat]

3. Heh, nice name choice.

[pscot]

4. Everything has its price

That's capitalism.