This isn’t being “carbon neutral.” It’s buying a carbon indulgence.https://twitter.com/eltonofficial/status/1163479337347231748 …
'Moral offsetting' ('buying an indulgence') is a legit strategy for solving problems; it's just very counter-intuitive: http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/01/moral-offsetting/ …
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it's also not a good analogy for 'buying an indulgence' - when peasants bought an indulgence, some other person somewhere was not refraining from a sin as a result
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I tried this with the wife.....never works
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One of my NYT columns from a few years back focused on exactly this issue: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/business/31view.html …pic.twitter.com/wBYEBWMkqk
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Man, now the reformation seems... awkward.
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That is shitty analogy.
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Only if the carbon offsetting actually works. All the evidence is that it's flawed at best, and at worst, completely bogus.
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What does it actually solve?
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It still misses the point. It's not the fact they take all these pointless flights, it is the fact that they are lecturing others on what to do and doing the opposite.
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