Conservation For Thee But Not For Me

Hollywood hypocrisy and carbon offsets meet and find love at first sight. From the New York Post via Libertas...

This year's Oscar goodie bag contained gift certificates representing 100,000 pounds of greenhouse gas reductions from TerraPass, which describes itself as a "carbon offset retailer." The 100,000 pounds "are enough to balance out an average year in the life of an Academy Award presenter," a press release from TerraPass asserts. "For example, 100,000 pounds is the total amount of carbon dioxide created by 20,000 miles of driving, 40,000 miles on commercial airlines, 20 hours in a private jet and a large house in Los Angeles.

It's sort of a Club Med conservation effort. You set back with an umbrella drink and pay all the little brown people do the work.