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Paying lip-service
The BBC is reporting a new proposed scheme from the Environmental Audit Committee. They’re suggesting the introduction of “personal carbon credit” system, in an attempt to limit the amount of energy that we all use.
The big hole in the plan is the same one that effects carbon offsetting; people who exceed their limit will be able to buy more credits from people who use less than their limit. The problem is that there’s no reduction in the amount of carbon being used, so there’s no reduction to the pollutants being pumped into the atmosphere.
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When the greenwashing movement became strong - it’s everywhere now - I left environmental blogging completely and deleted my blog. You have hit the nail squarely on the head. This whole carbon credits thing can do nothing more than assuage the egos of those who benefit from playing the game. Reduction is reduction and this scheme reduces NADA.
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