Just one quote says it all:
Central Taxis estimates it will save around 4,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere by signing up to a project capturing methane gas from China’s Tieling coal mines. (Guardian)
Apparently this is all the rage these days. Saving the planet from impending climate doom supposedly caused by fossil fuel, by buying carbon indulgences to capture more fossil fuel from a fossil fuel mine, to provide a thin greenwash to cover the fossil fuel burnt in the taxis.
Why don’t they just walk?
According to Mr MacAskill:
“Clearly taking a taxi does have a carbon footprint, it does have emissions that come out. But we do have to take taxis, they’re a necessary part of city life”.
Taxis are a necessary part of his life, well so, is affordable heating and affordable petrol, so is reliable electricity when the wind doesn’t blow. Has that our politicians foisting bad technology on us and the price rises to match?
Come on, Mr MacAskill, even by the mind numbing standards of the greens this is bad, but for a sensible mainstream politicians this “carbon offsetting” of a coalmine is just eco-nonsense gone mad.
