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It was about a decade ago that carbon offsets became a “thing.” Travelers at San Francisco International Airport could step up to a kiosk and buy carbon offsets to balance out that greenhouse gas-spewing flight. (How does 1,000 pounds of CO2 on an LA-to-Chicago trip sound?)
The idea of an offset is that you can cancel out the harmful effect of your emissions by supporting a project that will eliminate an equivalent amount of emissions elsewhere in the world. But offsets pose practical and moral problems: If harmful pollution is wrong, can you really right that wrong by paying someone else not to pollute?
Scientist: Another Sandy ‘would be devastating’ after BJ’s development destroys Graniteville wetlands
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Staten Island environmental activists are fighting against the Graniteville wetlands development. Sept. 25, 2017 (Staten Island Advance/Erik Bascome) EXT
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Carl Alderson remembers how Hurricane Sandy devastated Staten Island in 2012, causing immense flooding and two dozen deaths. Two decades before, he witnessed how a 1992 nor’easter slammed the borough and brought with it ravaging inundation.
In both cases, one fact is “indisputable,” said Alderson, a former Staten Islander and the Mid-Atlantic restoration coordinator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Associations’ Fisheries’ Habitat Restoration Center: The site of the former GATX oil storage terminal, which was a vacant low-lying basin of roughly 650 acres in the Old Place Creek corridor on the borough’s North Shore, helped absorb