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To salvage something from it.
Carbon offsets sure make the globe-trotting elites feel good, but the morality of it would be no different from (a purely hypothetical situation follows!) my husband buying "wife beating" offsets from his buddy, who promises not to smack his wife so my husband could keep smacking me. Two wrongs never make a right, and it is erroneous to think two wrongs cancel out if one wrong is "balanced" by the conversion of a second wrong to neutral, with a corresponding transfer of "credits". [[User:SarahFan|SarahFan]]
Carbon offsets sure make the globe-trotting elites feel good, but the morality of it would be no different from (a purely hypothetical situation follows!) my husband buying "wife beating" offsets from his buddy, who promises not to smack his wife so my husband could keep smacking me. Two wrongs never make a right, and it is erroneous to think two wrongs cancel out if one wrong is "balanced" by the conversion of a second wrong to neutral, with a corresponding transfer of "credits". [[User:SarahFan|SarahFan]]
:The two aren't really the same thing... [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 14:48, 4 October 2008 (EDT)
:The two aren't really the same thing... [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 14:48, 4 October 2008 (EDT)
::Well, the metaphor sort of partially works, because the "wife-beating credit" system does cause the overall level of wife-beating to go down. In the case of carbon credits (if the system is set up properly), the cutting of carbon emissions is routed to the places where it's easist and cheapest to do so, so you cut CO2 by the amount you want while minimizing any negative economic impact.--[[User:Frey|Frey]] 15:00, 4 October 2008 (EDT)