"Modern Indulgences"

I do the majority of my yard work by hand, eschewing gas powered tools like leaf blowers, edging tools, snow blowers, and such, not because I’m overly wrought by fears of global warming, but because I dislike the noise.  I wonder if I can market my non-mechanized yard work, which is environmentally friendly, as carbon offsets to maybe Al Gore’s indulgence trading company Generation Investment Management? My prices are relatively reasonable.

Victor Davis Hansen applies his pen to the subject of carbon offset indulgences, I mean trading, in a piece titled The New Penance doesn’t Offset Much. From Hansen’s piece.

In other words, “offsets” is merely a euphemism for words like cynicism and hypocrisy. So by all means help save the planet, worry about the poor, establish charities. Just spare us the medieval idea that such penance ever excuses your own excess.

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