Surprised, huh?
From the Sunday Herald:
SCHEMES USED by some of the world's top companies to offset pollution are flawed and failing to save the planet, it has been claimed.
Oil giant BP has also been accused of exaggerating cuts in emissions from pig farms in Mexico, while Sky TV's claims for a renewable energy plant in Bulgaria may prove illusory.
Estimates used by British Airways to offset pollution from air travel were also described as being too low. And trees planted in Britain to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may prove ineffective.
These revelations, to be broadcast in a Channel Four Dispatches documentary tomorrow evening, will re-ignite fears that much of the burgeoning carbon-offsetting business could be a con.
The article lists several more of these schemes where companies can say how "green" they are, when really nothing is happening.
These carbon offset schemes remind me of pyramid schemes, or of the indulgences of the Middle Ages where people could pay to have their dead relatives "prayed out of hell." Nowadays you can pay to be lifted out of environmental outer-darkness. Both of them amount to about the same thing.
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