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independent.co.uk - 18 days ago
Ethical travel company drops carbon offsetting
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One of Britain's leading ethical travel operators has launched a scathing attack on the carbon offset industry and has decided to stop offering offsets to its customers as a way of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. Justin Francis, the founder of responsibletravel.com, said he had decided to abandon offsets because he believes they have become a "medieval pardon that allows people to continue polluting". > >

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Carbon Trading in Action
Permaculture Research Institute of Australia — ... November 7, 2009 [image] An ‘ethical travel agent’, the Independent tells us today , goes ethical, deciding that getting customers to pay a little extra to ‘offset’ their damage to the environment is really just a way to help people feel better about persevering with their destructive lifestyles – in other words, just a placebo, and one that’s particularly lucrative for the middlemen involved. I thought I’d celebrate this news by sharing an interesting documentary about the practical results of industry-scale carbon ‘indulgences’ for the people involved on the ground. The ...

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