Day 1,278: scam

Today some so-called carbon-offset schemes that involve firms paying money to, say, plant a forest, are dubious and opaque—and belong to the realm of con-artists and scams rather than science.

Why climate change is intimately tied to biodiversity

Artwork of the day 
Scam
Sue Coe
Style: Social Realism
Genre: illustration

Word of the day 
scam: an illegal plan for making money, especially one that involves tricking people

Quote of the day
“Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.”
― bell hooks