18 Dec 2009 Offsets Help Environmentalists With Feelings of Guilt

The National Center for Public Policy Research is showcasing the hypocrisy of the carbon-emitting travels of global warming activists at COP-15 in Copenhagen by offering conscience-clearing “hypocrisy offsets” (as a humanitarian act) to attendees.

The hypocrisy offsets parody carbon offsets sold and traded allegedly to allow people to live carbon-neutral lives. The hypocrisy offsets also highlight the insincerity of world-traveling, energy-guzzling COP-15 delegates.

In a press release we issued about the offsets, David Ridenour, who has personally distributed the offsets in Copenhagen, explained, “Many of those in attendance to press for additional commitments for carbon reductions traveled thousands of miles and used substantial amounts of carbon-emitting jet-fuel just to get to the conference. We are exposing the hypocrisy by offering them ‘hypocrisy offsets’ to alleviate their green guilt. As one who is skeptical of the necessity of draconian carbon cuts, I plan to do my part to ensure plenty of hypocrisy offsets are available. I’ll refrain from reducing my own personal carbon footprint.”

Environmentalists are in Copenhagen demanding global limits on emissions, but they don’t want to follow the very rules they are proposing for the rest of the world. Their participation may earn them some media coverage, but it is having no effect on an agreement. In fact, the United Nations mostly banned them from even entering the conference, so their voluntary contribution to carbon emissions — emissions they insist imperil the planet — from this unnecessary travel is a stunning act of hypocrisy.

Because we know they must be feeling very guilty about what they’ve done, and in most cases intend to continue doing indefinitely, we invented hypocrisy offsets as a humanitarian act.

Aren’t we nice?

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Labels: Climate, Environment, Liberals, United Nations