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I guess money can grow on trees.

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Ah, the religion of global warming is spreading socialism to South America, gotta love it!

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"exchange the right to emit more carbon". This alone is the reason why carbon credits are worthless and so are those that believe in them! You don't change anything. With "carbon offset" you are doing nothing more than justifying your pollution. How about just polluting less instead of justifying it? This is like buying your pennance. It changes nothing. All this does is to give money to someone else. It's bribery. This is basically threatening the rest of the world by saying if you don't pay me, I'm cutting my forests down. What a crock.

Rather than pay someone else money for false peace of mind, I'd rather just throw that money in my gas tank. At least it's doing something useful to me that way.

I understand the benefits of polluting less and becoming more efficient but financially justifying it rather than reducing it isn't beneficial to anyone. No you aren't reducing it with bs "offsets". You are justifying it and nothing more. Give me a break.

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The new "Green" movement is really just the old "Red" one with a new paint job. It is specifically designed to scare people so they will freely transfer their money and political power into the hands of the global socialist elite who own the military-industrial complex (which includes the mainstream media) which has bought and paid for the prostitute politicians McCain, Obama and Clinton II.

The weak minded progressives/liberals/democratic-socialists/neo-conservatives are eating it up like other people's tax money.

P.T. Barnum was wrong. There is MORE than one sucker born every minute.

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"Nice forest we got here amigo...be a real shame if anything were to...happen...to it..."

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Monetizing forests this way is a risky game because it sets you up for extortion down the road.

There is no need to actively sequester carbon from the atmosphere just yet, we just need to reduce our dependence on *fossil* fuels. That means aggressive conservation plus shifting to renewable electricity and sustainable biofuels (food to fuel doesn't qualify).

Many oil, gas and coal companies won't like the sound of that, but ultimately it's is the only ticket out of Dodge.

IFF we discover that we need to actively reduce atmospheric GHG levels, we'll figure out how to grow algae, dry them, pack them in non-biodegradable containers and deposit them on the ocean floor. But there's no need for that yet.

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It's just sooooooo wrong. It does nothing to stop people cutting CO2. The agreement will come to an end at some point and we're back where we were with just more CO2 (I think the same of any offsetting scheme). Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. Will someone please slap anyone involved in this scam.

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