Question Earthority!

“There’s an admonition about putting the brain in gear before engaging the mouth — or something like that. Ample evidence that some people’s minds seem to be in neutral while they engage their environmental guilt came out in two recent press articles reporting news of the ‘carbon-neutral’ scam. Alan Zarembo writes in the Los Angeles Times about the remorseful who buy carbon ‘offsets’ to ease their polluter guilt. That’s all there is to it because no other benefits accrue except to some who happily take the supposed wrongdoer’s money — and ours.” (09/13/07)