Holy Cows: The great carbon offset con

It would seem that a new transgression has been invented to add to seven tried and tested Cardinal Sins. It’s called the Carbon Footprint and, fallible humans that we are, we just can’t help having one any more than we can help being adulterous, envious, gluttonous and all the rest of it. Flying, walking, eating, sleeping… pretty much everything we do seems to add carbon to our footprints.

And just as once industrious priests used to sell absolutions to erase our sins, some clever clogs have hit on the idea of charging us for exuding CO2...

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