Growing faster than smoke from a tall brick chimney at a busy factory, carbon trading has become a verifiable trend with news out every other day it seems about journalists or bands who want to invest in wind energy over there so they can burn petrol over here. Just click on the "Carbon Offset" category link over to the right and you'll see what I mean.
Like ethanol, carbon trading is a flawed "crutch" , something we can do now while we figure out what to do tomorrow. Smith's criticism of carbon trading is well placed, but not doing anything different would be truly obscene.
Carbon offsetting your CO2 emissions is popular because it's easy. Well, not as easy as not doing anything at all, but a lot easier than, say, converting your entire production plant to run off of hydrogen and methane from food waste. Plus, it's good publicity. Just click on the "Carbon Offset" category link again, and you'll see what I mean.
[Source: BBC / Kevin Smith] Via http://www.autobloggreen.com
