Comments on: My Road Trip, Your Advice Please http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2008/04/24/water-blog-needs-advice/ Make a splash with your communications! Sat, 19 May 2012 09:55:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: flyfish509 http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2008/04/24/water-blog-needs-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-3594 flyfish509 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:19:11 +0000 http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2008/04/24/my-road-trip-your-advice-please/#comment-3594 The issue is "how do I want to allocate my (presumably finite) charitable donations this year". Carbon offsets are simply a guilt-driven charitable donation. I prefer to let my passion for rivers, clean water and riparian habitat direct my charitable donations. Addressing the issue of legitimacy, some offsets are pretty simple -- give to wind industry and they displace fossil fuels, but you still don't know whether they would have done it anyway. At the other extreme, give to tree planting and you need to know what happens if beetles or a forest fire negate your investment 50 yrs from now. Somebody in the offset credit industry ought to be insuring against such outcomes, but I haven't seen much evidence that oversight is sufficient. The issue is “how do I want to allocate my (presumably finite) charitable donations this year”. Carbon offsets are simply a guilt-driven charitable donation. I prefer to let my passion for rivers, clean water and riparian habitat direct my charitable donations.

Addressing the issue of legitimacy, some offsets are pretty simple — give to wind industry and they displace fossil fuels, but you still don’t know whether they would have done it anyway. At the other extreme, give to tree planting and you need to know what happens if beetles or a forest fire negate your investment 50 yrs from now. Somebody in the offset credit industry ought to be insuring against such outcomes, but I haven’t seen much evidence that oversight is sufficient.

]]> By: Jeff http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2008/04/24/water-blog-needs-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-3593 Jeff Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:47:16 +0000 http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2008/04/24/my-road-trip-your-advice-please/#comment-3593 Eric, I'm heading up to River Rally in Ohio as well. Actually not too far from where I grew up. I'm looking forward to meeting you after reading your blog for the past year. Jeff Eric,

I’m heading up to River Rally in Ohio as well. Actually not too far from where I grew up. I’m looking forward to meeting you after reading your blog for the past year.

Jeff

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