Eco Activists Hijack Carbon Trading Conference

The burgeoning carbon trading industry is getting prominent enough to have its very own “greenwash guerillas.” These two eco-activists briefly take over the podium at a New York carbon trading conference, offer attendees a “Deed to the Sky,” and declare carbon trading a scam. OK, so they’re a bit hardcore, but the industry is controversial in some places. Why do you wanna watch it? Cause it’s Friday. And because the dazed attendees clap afterwards like the stunt is a regular conference panel:


[via Reuters].

 
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