I was trawling through some back letters on the Daily Telegraph webpages yesterday and this pair really took my eye:
Can someone please explain the difference between the pre-Reformation sale of plenary indulgences and payments for "carbon offsets"? They both appear to be hilariously fraudulent methods of extracting cash from the gullible, and neither has the slightest basis in rationality or empirical science.
CB.
Keith Lonsdale said it so much more succinctly than I could have:
"Is carbon offsetting a con?" It was thought up by NuLabour, what else is it going to be?
