Sunday, March 4, 2007
Unbelievable
I'm encumbered blessed with a skepticism filter so I rarely take anything at face value any more, especially anything very wonderful or very gloomy. Nevertheless, I am awe-struck by his-holiness-Gore and his family's energy usage. It's not just the quantity, which admittedly is staggering and blithely hypocritical, but the twist: a cleverly named manipulation called "carbon offsetting". If you don't know about this, read Mark Steyn's article - which pretty much requires wide-spread distribution anyway, partly because of his usual dry humor but mostly because it explains offsetting so well. It's essentially a way for people to trade high usage for low, so if you need four zillion and I only need a billion, I can give you some of my 'credits'. If it were only so simple, for one thing, and if it wasn't so callous, for another. And guess what? there's a corporation that engages in international offsetting and you-know-who is a major stockholder and salesman. I thought we were done with self-important people taking advantage of and patronizing people under the guise of do-goodism, but apparently not. I guess if you slather on do-goodism thickly enough, some people still think the emperor is wearing clothes. The incredible thing is that the idea of carbon offsets hasn't been laughed or booed out of the metaphorical room, along with the emperor.
Labels: 2008 election, politics
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