Carbon offsetting rethinkable

EVERYTHING is rethinkable. Even Carbon offsetting.

Yes carbon offsetting is the big craze right now, you can virtually offset anything. I recently found this add in the tube in London advertising a carbon offset mortgage, but is carbon offsetting the best solution? Wouldn't it be better if we did not even cause the CO2 emissions in the first place?

So many of the environmentally friendly "solutions" are really just a transition to whatever technology we should use, i.e. electric car. Since we don't have the technology readily available yet, we can at least do something in the mean time, i.e. carbon offsetting, using a smaller car, reducing the usage of carbon emitting technology, using co-generation heat power units, etc. All these "solutions" should never be our final destination, and we should only be satisfied when we find the technology that is truly carbon free.
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Find out more about those topics:
Wikipedia: Carbon offset
My smart is carbon offset with a Clean Air Pass
BBC News article on how carbon offsetting is not the solution!
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