Buying vouchers to offset pollution November 23, 2007
Posted by [[aaron alexander]] in Enviroment, Purchase, vouchers.trackback
Ever thought of contributing to offset pollution? now you CAN!
As I was reading the newspaper I came across this interesting fact that is so fascinating. There is this Australian guy that has come out with this movement of getting people to “Contribute back to the environment”.
This campaign is mostly targeted at businessmen who take flights ever so frequently for business purposes. As a single flight would emit tones of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) gases, they would be the major shareholders to the contribution and damage of the environment by indirectly “emitting” greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Hence if they are guilty stricken they can contribute back to the environment by buying one of these vouchers and thus knowing they are playing their share by “sustaining” the environment because this Australian guy claims would use these funds to do eco-friendly works like buying more windmills!
Sounds cool?
Do your part by learning more information & contributing @
http://www.redballoondays.com.au/experience/NEC944
Actually, to me, that is rather… well… selfish. It’s like taking things from someone, saying ‘uh oh, sorry, didn’t mean to do that’ and then paying someone to make something that might or might not in fact replace what you took.
Now, it may sound like it works, but… well, it’s a quick ticket to take as many flights as possible, and all they do AFTER the damage is done is just to buy a few so-called vouchers?
Sounds to me that people aren’t ready to take charge of their life and help the environment pro-actively just yet.
Do you personally think the vouchers-idea will work?
We I do agree with Fareedz has a good point there.. with vouchers it doesn’t actually erase your sins and letting you go scot free. However I think that these vouchers are good alternatives, better than nothing, sort of things where you know that at least someone is making the effort to redeem the environment instead of just maing it worse, and since they are doing-it, why not contributing to it to make it a bigger project?
Check out “The Tragedy of the Commons” by Garrett Hardin. He makes a good argument for the “pathogenic effects of conscience.”