Eco-Enslavement?
The next issue of ‘Grass in Review’ will examine how some environmental policies end up keeping the people of the Third World in a state of perpetual poverty. A perfect example of this is explored by Brendan O’Neil over at the iconoclastic Brit website Spiked:
In a feature about carbon offsetting in The Times (London), it was revealed that the leader of the UK Conservative Party, David Cameron, offsets his carbon emissions by effectively keeping brown people in a state of bondage. Whenever he takes a flight to some foreign destination, Cameron donates to a carbon-offsetting company that encourages people in the developing world to ditch modern methods of farming in favour of using their more eco-friendly manpower to plough the land. So Cameron can fly around the world with a guilt-free conscience on the basis that, thousands of miles away, Indian villagers, bent over double, are working by hand rather than using machines that emit carbon.
Welcome to the era of eco-enslavement…. (click to read more)
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I was saddened when I read Roy Innis’ article “Environmental Activitsts are Enemies of the Poor” featured in this week’s Grass in Review, available on the home page of http://www.grassrootinstitute.org, but carbon-offsetting is intentional eco-enslavement and worse.
Wendy F wendy@grassrootinstitute.org