There is an increasing trend for people to offset their personal generation of CO2 and other greenhouse gases by paying for schemes which sequester CO2.
If you offset your emissions then you are not contributing personally to global warming.
There is an obvious disconnect here. If we take the problem of global warning seriously we should try to minimise the amount of CO2 we produce. Its fine for the minimum to be negative., so we should make it our personal goal to ensure that we have the most negative carbon footprint possible.
There is something strange going on here when people are paying not to solve the problem but to salve their consciences.
Perhaps its part of the "green" worldview. To caricature a somewhat this view the human race as somehow separate from the rest of creation and evil by its very presence. This is a bizarre combination of the biblical idea of original sin, and the enlightenment view of humanity's distinctiveness. It seems to result in a kind of self-abnegation where our highest goal is to leave no footprint on the earth.
If you offset your emissions then you are not contributing personally to global warming.
There is an obvious disconnect here. If we take the problem of global warning seriously we should try to minimise the amount of CO2 we produce. Its fine for the minimum to be negative., so we should make it our personal goal to ensure that we have the most negative carbon footprint possible.
There is something strange going on here when people are paying not to solve the problem but to salve their consciences.
Perhaps its part of the "green" worldview. To caricature a somewhat this view the human race as somehow separate from the rest of creation and evil by its very presence. This is a bizarre combination of the biblical idea of original sin, and the enlightenment view of humanity's distinctiveness. It seems to result in a kind of self-abnegation where our highest goal is to leave no footprint on the earth.
