Heather Rogers is a journalist and filmmaker, and is the author of the
recently published Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage (The New
Press).
To Western consumers, carbon offsets sound good on paper—but the devil is in the details.
PLAN D--D FOR DISGUSTED
Douglaston, NY
Gas-guzzling SUVs take a lot of blame, but landfills make stealthy
stealthy contributions to climate change. While they should be
developing innovative waste disposal strategies, corporate-owned
landfills use techniques that generate heat-trapping methane that
accelerate global warming.


