Professor Bainbridge takes a look, and sees offsets as a legitimate tool. His conclusion:
Maybe the answer is not to demand that Hollywood elites cut their consumption, but simply to insist that they document their purchase of carbon off-sets before hectoring the rest of us?
Should we all pay some? Having never driven a car in my life, I may not need one. But I'm an air-conditioning freak and could be persuaded to pay for an offset. How do we democratize this?
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http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/04/carbon-off-sets-and-hollywood/229096/
