5 Ways People Are Trying to Save the World (That Don't Work) | Cracked.com
#1.
Buying Carbon Offsets
Why People Do It:
Unless you think it would be awesome to have have Earth turn into freaking Tatooine, you're probably in favor of stopping global warming.
Carbon offsets are supposed to make you carbon neutral, by paying to have someone else reduce their carbon dioxide output in an amount equal to the amount you are putting into the air with your decadent, Hummer-driving lifestyle.
Why They Shouldn't:
At the end of the day, much like buying your girlfriend a bracelet after a night in the champagne room, it's debatable whether you are doing anything except paying to clear your own guilty conscience.
You're buying a promise from someone else that they are going to reduce their own carbon emissions by a certain amount. The trouble is that currently there is no standard or authority that monitors the offsets.
Investigations found that often, people buying offsets have bought worthless promises. Even when the company offering the offset follows through, there still might not be any additional benefit because the company who took your credits was already planning to reduce its emissions anyway.
Take, for example, the company that sold carbon offsets based on a plan to reduce methane gas at a landfill. It sounded great until investigations revealed that the methane reduction plan was in place long before the offsets were sold. That part of the plan is all well and good, but it completely destroys the whole concept of buying and selling carbon offsets. Nothing was being "offset."
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The catholic church was not providing a house for the priest or bishop to live in, they are providing him a mansion. Jesus did live a in a mansion, Jesus didn't turn water into wine for the hell of it.
I have no idea why those pagans insist on him having his own nation.