The Chicanery of Selling Carbon Credits

You might have heard that Maine officials hope to sell Maine’s carbon credits so that densely populated industrialized areas of our great country may legally continue their unabated pollution of our planet. Selling heroin to children in a far-away state is generally frowned upon, but now we are supposed to compartmentalize our thinking and recognize the carbon credit sellers as economic wizards. You must admit that the concept has potential. For example, here on the coast of Maine on any sweltering July day, the temperature might climb to 68 degrees. If weather were a marketable commodity like pollution, the chamber of commerce in Philadelphia could buy a week of Maine’s July weather to make their Independence Day celebration and visits to the Liberty Bell a bit more attractive to potential visitors. --- Of course the price would be negotiable, as Tenants Harbor residents would gladly...
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