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Re:The Food Miles Mistake: Saving the planet by eating New Z... by alecco on Friday November 07, 2008 @05:11PM (#357158)
There are many viable solutions right now for carbon offsetting. Financing electricity projects in the third world can decrease their carbon emissions significantly. This is quite often just financing powerlines and water network. Or just a small dam and generator somewhere.

You don't need research for ethical progress. And this would help the whole world economy as it creates and promotes wealth.

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Re:The Food Miles Mistake: Saving the planet by eating New Z... by ivankirigin on Friday November 07, 2008 @08:24PM (#357317)
It doesn't actually solve the problem.

We already know the solution: a technology cheaper than coal to generate electricity and a technology cheaper than gasoline for energy storage and transport.

Helping third world nations is great. But it doesn't actually solve the problem.

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Re:The Food Miles Mistake: Saving the planet by eating New Z... by alecco on Friday November 07, 2008 @08:56PM (#357368)
You talk like it's mutually exclusive.
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