Re: [Pen-l] Offsets are still counterfeit carbon credits

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

While these talking points and responses are extremely useful, to talk
to the public, we need some simple story of what's wrong with
off-sets. The "cheating neutral" is a nice analogy, but it's not exact
enough.[*]

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

[*] From Robert Frank's NYT column:
>... A British Web site called Cheat Neutral (www.cheatneutral.com) parodies the concept — by offering a service under which someone who wants to cheat on his partner can pay someone else who will refrain from committing an act of infidelity. The site’s founders say they wanted to use humor to demonstrate why the market for carbon offsets is a moral travesty...

> AT last count, Cheat Neutral, the British infidelity neutralization Web site, said it had offset 65,768 cheats, and had recruited a roster of “9,002 faithful people ready to neutralize your misdemeanors.” The Web site draws out the parallel this way: “When you cheat on your partner you add to the heartbreak, pain, and jealousy in the atmosphere.” Cheat Neutral claims that its plan “neutralizes the pain and unhappy emotion and leaves you with a clear conscience.” <

[Frank thinks that the analogy with carbon offsets is inaccurate.]
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