An act of pretending to care about the environment. The attempt to justify ones use of greenhouse gas emissions. A false hope for solving global warming. The act of buying ‘carbon credits’ from a third-party company that says it will offset the carbon emissions the purchaser produces. The problem with carbon offsetting is it allows companies to continue to produce harmful greenhouse gasses while their offset has done little or nothing to counter global warming. A recent Financial Times article found that many offset companies and their 'carbon credits' were of either uncertain value or were completely worthless. Global warming cannot be solved by just planting more trees, a common way to attempt to offset ones emissions. If global warming could be solved by just planting trees, environmentalists would be planting night and day. A certain well known ex-vice-pres 'eco-maniac' very interestingly endorses the practice of carbon offsetting. The industry of carbon offsetting is expected to double by 2010.
A better solution to solve global warming is to reduce total emissions as much a possible.
Source: google carbon offset and financial times
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A better solution to solve global warming is to reduce total emissions as much a possible.
Source: google carbon offset and financial times
Gore: google al gore and carbon offset
Journalist: Environmentalists say your company is going to produce a 3% increase in greenhouse gas emissions on earth.
Company CEO: That is indeed super true, but it's totally okay because we carbon offset. We bought a shit-ton of carbon credits, so we are carbon neutral, duuuude!
Company CEO: That is indeed super true, but it's totally okay because we carbon offset. We bought a shit-ton of carbon credits, so we are carbon neutral, duuuude!
by Truth Inconvenient August 24, 2007
A guitar, usually electric, featuring an offset "waist." The lower and upper sections are offset from each other. The offset waist was designed to be more comfortable when playing in a seated position. These guitars and basses were introduced in the late 50's with the Fender Jazzmaster. The guitar was embraced by the Surf music scene. This prompted Fender to release the short scale Jaguar, and many others. Some examples include the Fender Jazzmaster, Fender Jaguar, Fender Mustang, Fender Musicmaster, Fender Toronado, Jazz Bass, many Reverend guitars.
by RumorsOFsurF February 20, 2007
When movie directors cast a person of color in their films to avoid criticisms of being racist. It doesn't really work and follows along the same logic as a carbon offset, "I'm doing something bad, so I'll buy my way out of it so that I can continue to have the moral high-ground--or at least not be criticized as having a racist movie."
Samuel L. Jackson is in the new Star Wars movies, so they couldn't be racist. He's one of Lucas's melanin offsets. Mace Windu is a melanin offset for Jar-Jar Binks.
by J.M. Young August 4, 2007
Offset morningwood is when you wake up normally with no morning wood and you get up and minutes after you get out of bed morning wood hits you
*billy comes out of his room and starts to make breakfast*
Mom: oh my god billy is that your morningwood
Billy: nah fam issa offset morningwood
Mom: oh my god billy is that your morningwood
Billy: nah fam issa offset morningwood
by Those arab guys August 27, 2017
Similar to carbon offset. When a person performs a job or task that is karmically bad, it can be offset by another job or task that is karmically good.
Although Joe was a shrewd investment banker, his wife offered karma offset by working at a nonprofit that helped Iraqi orphans find new homes.
by ezcam November 14, 2009
Similar to carbon offset, trash offsetting is the act of voluntarily picking up and disposing of trash/litter from the street, in order that at some later stage one can drop one's own with a clear conscience.
If done responsibly the concept often eliminates the inconvenience of having to find an appropriate receptacle for items of waste, while also having a net gain for the environment.
If done responsibly the concept often eliminates the inconvenience of having to find an appropriate receptacle for items of waste, while also having a net gain for the environment.
"Hey man, you can't just leave that burger wrapper in the street!"
"Hell yeah I can, I picked up three cans today."
"Trash offsetting huh?"
"Hell yeah I can, I picked up three cans today."
"Trash offsetting huh?"
by NickJGrey February 18, 2009
This is a guys way of wanting to buy lets say a motorbike
he then has to buy his wife something infinatley more expensive to off set his motorbike spend
he then has to buy his wife something infinatley more expensive to off set his motorbike spend
by mytts69 January 27, 2010