Comments on: myclimate http://extrabright.com/blog/2007/08/31/myclimate/ //pat's blog Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:55:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: pajai http://extrabright.com/blog/2007/08/31/myclimate/comment-page-1/#comment-5470 pajai Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:47:34 +0000 http://extrabright.com/blog/2007/08/31/myclimate/#comment-5470 Yeah, I guess you are a bit right. Basically you pay so that this money is invested somewhere else in order for someone else not to polute. At the end of the day, there is still carbon dioxyde in the air. Even though we could consider that if you had not bought the carbon credit and not emitted that quantity, the same quantity would have been emitted anyway. But I agree that we should restrain from carbon emissions in the first place. Nevertheless I find the idea interesting that you try to clean up your mess. You are not just doing something, period. You think about the impact of what you are doing, try to diminish them, and those you cannot avoid for some reason, you clean up the mess it produces. So at the end, in the price for doing something gets included the price for cleaning the mess it does. Yeah, I guess you are a bit right. Basically you pay so that this money is invested somewhere else in order for someone else not to polute. At the end of the day, there is still carbon dioxyde in the air. Even though we could consider that if you had not bought the carbon credit and not emitted that quantity, the same quantity would have been emitted anyway.

But I agree that we should restrain from carbon emissions in the first place.

Nevertheless I find the idea interesting that you try to clean up your mess. You are not just doing something, period. You think about the impact of what you are doing, try to diminish them, and those you cannot avoid for some reason, you clean up the mess it produces. So at the end, in the price for doing something gets included the price for cleaning the mess it does.

]]> By: Jacques Lema http://extrabright.com/blog/2007/08/31/myclimate/comment-page-1/#comment-5462 Jacques Lema Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:25:40 +0000 http://extrabright.com/blog/2007/08/31/myclimate/#comment-5462 I might be a bit of a cynic but how is that different from the Catholic Church's indulgence system of the old days ? I am sure they are doing good things with the money and it's a good thing to donate, but I don't like the idea of paying to excuse your non-neutral-carbon sins. Basically the idea is that since we live a rich country we afford the luxury of polluting and can invest some money to ensurer poorer people, elsewhere, won't enjoy this polluting luxury. The carbon you emitted really got emitted, Paying for it not to happen elsewhere doesn't remove it here. I hope you feel horribly guilty now that you heard all this criticism from someone who secretly hates the planet :-) I might be a bit of a cynic but how is that different from the Catholic Church’s indulgence system of the old days ?

I am sure they are doing good things with the money and it’s a good thing to donate, but I don’t like the idea of paying to excuse your non-neutral-carbon sins.

Basically the idea is that since we live a rich country we afford the luxury of polluting and can invest some money to ensurer poorer people, elsewhere, won’t enjoy this polluting luxury.

The carbon you emitted really got emitted, Paying for it not to happen elsewhere doesn’t remove it here.

I hope you feel horribly guilty now that you heard all this criticism from someone who secretly hates the planet :-)

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