King of the Hill aired their series finally Sunday and it kind of sucks for me to see it go. I avoided it like the plague for years but more recently came to really appreciate the show. Especially when they made dead on commentary about what’s going on in the world these days. Their episode about carbon offsets was dope and I thought illustrated what carbon offsets in a way that’s easy to understand. Sometimes the language and the jargon of going green is so unclear.
Here’s a short clip from the episode where Bobby and his friend sell Khan carbon offsets. And to think of all the characters from Beavis and Butthead Hank Hill’s was the one that took off!
We all emit a certain amount of carbon as a result of the things we do everyday from driving to showering to buying groceries. That’s based on gas usage to run your car, heat your water and ship your veggies. People try to be part of the solution by neutralizing their carbon emissions and significantly reducing their impact on global warming. Carbon is a greenhouse gas that can be harmful to the environment. Reducing my impact (carbon footprint) helps. But maybe I reduced my impact more than you. You can pay me to reduce mine even more or you pay me to do earth friendly things like making windmills to offset what you are not willing to do thereby still helping the planet (purchasing carbon offset credits). On a larger scale corporations and governments do this too because the amount of carbon they are allowed to emit is capped by law (compliance legislation, Kyoto protocol).
