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Posted by David Macilwain on February 26, 2019, 12:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Climate Emergency and cognitive dissonance."
- and thanks for your honest and guilty thoughts John. It's a problem that we can't get away from here, living in a place that is culturally stultifying if you hate America, and like to see Europe and MENA every so often. WE only fly every two years, and do so for three months, but probably emit more CO2 in those few days than for the rest of the year being off the grid etc. FWIW though, buying offsets is just a con. Australia's whole CO2 reduction policy is based on offsets, because that's the only way we can go on increasing our fossil fuel burning! We are now claiming that the offset credits earned under Kyoto can be used to meet the Paris commitments, while CO2 real emissions climb around 2% per year. Qantas' offsets include payments to indigenous land holders in the Northern territory to set fire to savannah lands, which will produce less emissions than if they catch fire uncontrollably. IF! Hard to get your head around that, specially when you learn that those landholders are setting fire to things unnecessarily to claim the rebates. But I can't really answer the problem, other than to say that without travel to the rest of the world we'd be as ignorant as the rest of our landlocked countrymen.
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