AGW Today: Barry’s Forthcoming Green Job Losses And CFL’s : Stop The ACLU

This green, read “fixing anthropogenic global warming,” energy really is a boondoggle.

Earth Hour and Beyond « Vox Nova

[from Tim Harford’s book The Undercover Economist] In other words, why be “carbon-neutral” when you can be “carbon-optimal,” especially since the meeting was not benzene-neutral, lead-neutral, noise-neutral, or accident neutral? Instead of working out whether to improve the environment directly (by planting trees), or indirectly (by promoting discussion), the charity was spending considerable energy keeping itself precisely “neutral” - and not even precisely neutral on all externalities, nor even a modest range of environmental toxins, but preserving its neutrality on a single, high-profile pollutant: carbon dioxide. And it was doing so in a very public way.

A kind view would be that the charity was setting a “good example,” if acting nonsensically can ever be a good example. An unkind view would be that it was indulging in moral posturing.