Equiclimate meets the Government Gold Standard

I gather that most of the Gov't-approved schemes relate to carbon reduction in developing countries.

I can see the need for this and I think this is the right approach, if carbon offsetting is to be used at all. That doesn't mean we can't all go out and plant a tree in THIS country, if we want, preferably on some bare, denuded, sheep-monoculture hilltop.

No MSE-ers should get the idea, however, that ANY kind of offsetting is actually much more than a cop-out from the necessity of reducing one's own carbon 'footprint'.

Fewer trains, fewer cars, fewer planes, fewer lights, fewer radiators. More trains, more buses, more bikes, more walks, more energy saving bulbs, more layers of clothes.

CVID wrote:

That doesn't mean we can't all go out and plant a tree in THIS country, if we want, preferably on some bare, denuded, sheep-monoculture hilltop.

Hill tops have always been bare, they're above the "tree-line".

Not only is it an unnatural idea, it is also completely stupid - rainfall runs straight off hills into rivers, if we cover our hills in woods then rivers cease to exist.

Crikey. Some people.