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Carbon Con

A collection of 3 posts

Cheat Neutral

I’ve written before about the carbon offsetting con [https://uniteddiversity.com/carbon-con/] and in my update [https://uniteddiversity.com/carbon-con-update/] I mentioned the wonderful Cheat Neutral [http://web.archive.org/web/20080512021930/http://www.cheatneutral.com/] site. Now I figured I should embed their splendid video here too for

Carbon Con update

Carbon Con update

A while ago, prompted by a load of Hub [https://www.the-hub.net] members sending details about numerous Carbon “offsetting” companies to the Hub list, I wrote The Carbon Con [https://uniteddiversity.coop/carbon-con]. One of the comments I got was from tav of green.tv [https://green.tv] >

The Carbon "Offset" Con

Here is the text of an e-mail I sent out earlier today: > Sorry to smash the illusion folks, but I’ve done considerable research into this and carbon “off-sets” are a con. We cannot neutralise, nor “off-set”, carbon we have already emitted (or are about to emit by driving,