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Offsetting Democracy - How Carbon Trading is Smoke and Mirrors

category international | environment | opinion/analysis author Wednesday March 05, 2008 10:09author by Soundmigration - WSM Report this post to the editors

by Kevin Smith - Carbon Trade Watch/Transnational Institute

Carbon trading and offsets distract attention from the wider, systemic changes and collective political action that needs to be taken in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Promoting more effective and empowering approaches to climate change involves moving away from the blinkered reductionism of free-market dogma, the false-economy of supposed quick fixes, the short-term self interest of big business.
Carbon Trading is Capitalist exploitation, and scientifically Bollox!!
Carbon Trading is Capitalist exploitation, and scientifically Bollox!!

THE CONCEPT THAT underpins the whole system of carbon trading and offsetting is that a ton of carbon here is exactly the sameK as a ton of carbon there. That is, if its cheaper to reduce emissions in India than it is in the UK, then you can achieve the same climate benefit in a more cost-effective manner by making the reduction in India.

But, the seductive simplicity of this concept is based on collapsing a whole series of important considerations, such as land rights, North-South inequalities, local struggles, corporate power and colonial history, into the single question of cost-effectiveness. The mechanisms of emissions trading and offsetting represent a reductionist approach to climate change that negates complex variables in favour of cost-effectiveness.

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