Who says the NYTimes is total crap? ::grins at Davner::

[sethrak]

The best description of carbonoffsetting by the rich, ever: "Carbon-offsetting, the newly fashionable practice of compensating for one’s own carbon emissions by paying into a fund to reduce them elsewhere, may be better than nothing, but to some it sounds too much like rich men paying others to take their place in the draft during the Civil War. "

From today's online issue, in an article on Live Earth.