Buy a Carbon Offset, Save the Planet?

Just a year ago, Gloria Estela Gonzalez, a professor in Middlebury, Vt., and her husband and two sons thought they were living the greenest lifestyle possible: They made compost, they drove a Prius, they recycled. But when Gonzalez's then 10-year-old son Matias Van Order Gonazalez got upset after reading about global warming in a children's almanac, the family decided to do even more: Buy carbon credits...

[are you paying attention America? No, not the credit scam - the fact that this theory is being pushed to our children - 'upset after reading about GW in a children's almanac'?! the tactic should cause outrage regardless of subject - shouldn't it? time for home schooling...]

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