Carbon Trading Your Seat

A friend and his wife just returned from Hawaii and reminded that if a person wanted to fly “guilt-free” they could pay an extra $230 to offset the carbon cost of those two seats.

He didn’t plan to pay to fly “guilt free.”

I reminded him that it actually wasn’t free of guilt. I described the Fidelity Trading website, where a man who wanted to cheat on his wife but didn’t could then sell his “guilt-free credit” to a guy who DID cheat.

I then told him that I had been thinking of flying over to Hawaii all year long to visit my brother and his wife, but didn’t.

Did he want to pay me the $230 instead?

He didn’t.

But he said he would eat the slice of chocolate mousse cake that was on my plate … and would pay for it … with calories.