Due diligence

That is what I want to see after reading this. So, feel guilty about taking that vacation to Hawaii, or grilling that steak over charcoal, or just feel guilty about your carbon footprint because you are alive? Then the City of San Francisco has a deal for you- it will sell to you carbon offsets for your guilt. That's right, you don't actually have to reduce anything you currently do, but to soothe your conscience, you can give money to the government which will funnel the money to a few very worthy companies that will plant a tree or dump iron particles into the ocean.

I may have this wrong, but let me see if I understand this. The City will fund carbon offset companies to do whatever it is they will do to offset official travel for the first year, then begin selling offsets to people in Ess Eff who feel guilty about living. So, the City is just setting up a new spending program to ease peoples' minds? Yet they have to float a $185 million bond to pay for upgrading and maintaining playgrounds. I hope they've figured out how much they will have to pay to offset that.