Sustainable Sustainability
Sustainability. I was thinking about this and the whole brouhaha about how we should all be concerned about planet earth. Carbon emissions is a big problem. Let's solve it. How? Carbon credits, apparently is an answer. So company A has money but polluting the hell out of the earth. Company B doesn't have money but isn't polluting as much (or has developed an algorithm to prove that they are actually reducing the carbon in their environment). So company B will get some money and bear the brunt (and the guilt)of some carbon pollution from Company A. Everyone is happy. Right? Eventually, Company B will exhaust it's carbon credits but will use the money from company A to buy carbon credits from company C in a third world country at a lower cost. Company A continues to pollute at will, of course (and probably more than normal because the associated guilt of pollution is washed away with the profits that, let's say, the pollution enables). So what's in all this for po