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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
You're missing the point. He pays money to someone else who builds solar/wind farms that produce as much power as he uses, thus he nets 0 tonnes of carbon dioxide from his electricity consumption. There was a link to the website with this program right at the end of the movie.
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I may be missing the point. That article is kind of sketchy and I haven't seen the movie. The way I took it, the excuse given by his spokesperson was "his house burns a lot of electricity, but he invests in green energy, so it's okay". If that's not the situation then I have missed something.
If he wants to be a role-model or a spokesperson for this cause, he should not be burning so much energy even if he ponies up some extra cash to cover his pollution. Very few people in the world are in the position to drop 1500 bucks a month on electricity no matter where it comes from. A better message, especially from someone who is getting so much mileage out of this issue, would be "I use very little energy, and what I do use I get from a windfarm". With this story the message is "my old house goes through a lot of electricity but I pay extra to a windfarm so I'm good".