Global climate change has emerged as one of the most salient issues in the 2008 Presidential election. Politicians sense the need to promote innovative environmental policies, and they're increasingly under pressure to go green themselves - to run carbon neutral campaigns. The Edwards campaign has taken the lead and announced that it will buy carbon offsets to balance any ecological damage produced by its planes, trains, and automobiles. More power to them? Maybe not.
To understand why carbon offsets may...
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