What is Carbon Footprint Offset?
1.
A boondoggle involving polluting one geographical location with excessive use of carbon-based fuel while paying to promote clean energy in another geographical location, and claiming one offsets the other, thus yielding neutral pollution.
Al Gore rationalizes his profligate use of $30,000/year in electricity and natural gas at his home in Nashville by partially funding clean energy production in other areas, terming this a "carbon footprint offset". It is tantamount to dumping garbage on the streets of Nashville and "offsetting" it by paying for street cleanup in Seattle.
See
Random Words:
1.
The Words used by the Knights who No Longer Say Ni!
"We are no longwe the Knights Who Say Ni!" "Ni, Ni!" "Shhh..
