The hypocrisy of the environmental religion has never been more on display than at — imagine this — the United Nations climate talks, which concluded Friday.
The confab in Lima, Peru, was expected to have the biggest carbon footprint of any previous climate conversation, The Associated Press reported. And not only the biggest but one and a half times bigger than the norm, according to Jorge Alvarez, the project coordinator for the U.N. Development Program.
Not only did Peru have to disturb a huge grassy area to build 11 football fields of temporary structures for the 13-day session, but the parts to build them came from as far away as France and Brazil.
Further, it was dubious whether the 580 square miles of forest in three different reserves that were protected by the country to offset the carbon footprint could remain undisturbed for the necessary next 50 years.
Indeed, that’s one of the problems with carbon offsetting. Some offset ideas that involve tree planting have been debunked, proven to be scientifically unreliable and are said to only invent savings.