Carbon credits. Who’d have thought saving the environment could be purchased off the shelf. For the D&D’ers out there, imagine being carbon true neutral. Not paying someone to assuage your eco-guilt, but rather not incurring such guilt in the first place.

Is it possible? Possibly. Is it affordable? Probably not, for the vast majority. Sure you could use an electric only car, or a Prius modded to allow full electric mode (in Euro models but is crippled in the US). And sure you could run your house fully on wind and/or solar energy, but that would mean huge upfront costs and require major changes in power usage.

In the last few days we’ve been hit by some pretty bad weather at home. It caused some major flooding, washed a 40000 tonne coal tanker ashore and killed 9 people so far. Before the situation was even settled some journalists were jumping on the climate change wagon.

Does that mean that we won’t have natural disasters any more, just climate change events? Does it mean that the rebuilding costs are like carbon credits to pay for our climate changing ways? One thing’s for sure, in an election year it’ll get good milage.