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Naomi Klein fails to recognise offset challenges
2013-09-26 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Offsetting the practice of paying others to reduce their emissions for you is the world's best first step in tackling collective inaction on climate change. This view contradicts what is often expressed in these pages, most recently by my compatriot Naomi Klein in her criticisms of green groups. But it reflects one simple truth: the Earth's atmosphere is agnostic about who emits. So long as global emissions are capped at the level that science demands, their distribution is irrelevant. The...
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