While preparing articles to comment on today, out of curiosity I decided to see if there is some sort of indulgence system in place that environmentalists can sell to people to offset their carbon emissions. I must admit to having heard something about it in passing and did not pay much attention to it until I got serious about the threat gang green is to mankind.
Not surprisingly there it. A market is in place set up by green companies and charities that sell investments that fund environmental projects worldwide as a way for people to offset their carbon footprints. Carbon offsetting involves financing a number of projects such as investing in green technologies or even planting trees. The practice, however, turns out to be nothing more than a scam that ultimately is designed to make. you feel good.
As opposed by environmentalists borrowing from the efforts of anti-Israel groups and conducting their version of a divestment campaign against companies whose business is based on fossil fuels, environmentalists have obviously borrowed the idea for this system of indulgences from the Catholic Church who sold indulgences as a way for people to offset their sins so they could enter Heaven. An ancient practice that has made a comeback with the blessing of the Church’s new Pope.
Carbon offsetting is also how Al Gore is able to justify his lucrative lifestyle while making money hand-over-fist by participating in this scheme. Fortunately, his carbon offset-based company CCX went belly-up in 2010 which (hopefully) means that the entire carbon trading marketplace is on the verge of collapse.
Aside from environmentalist philosophy and ethics being both grounded in altruistic sacrifice, carbon offsetting proves the environmentalist movement is religious in nature. This is one more concrete example that proves it.
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