This company sells carbon offsets to people so that they can feel righteous. Here is a description of one of the ways you can offset your carbon…..

The treadle pump is a simple device which uses human power to pump water from wells, streams and lakes. One person – man, woman or even child – can operate the pump by manipulating his/her body weight on two treadles and by holding a bamboo or wooden frame for support. These pumps displace the diesel pumps that are more commonly used.

Benefits
• Replaces polluting diesel-powered pumps
• Allows 2 or 3 harvests a year, instead of 1
• Prevents farmers having to leave their families to work in the city during ‘off season’
Farmers’ income increases, often between two and five-fold

As a guide: 1 treadle pump = 0.65 tonnes CO2 saved per year.

I would think that this whole company was fake except that David Cameron apparently buys carbon offsets from this company.

Megan McArdle is scandalized by the child labor implications of “or even child.” But I can’t get over how funny the whole thing is. If someone did this as a parody I would say that they were a genius. But to have someone try to pass this stuff off for real is just priceless.

I got to get in the business of selling offsets.