If only only the alternate energy pimps could avoid purchasing jetliners to solve their personal ego crises. Tends to turn an environmental business justification into another model of hypocrisy.
Do you mean like expending carbon in order to build a solar panel or a windmill? Is that also hypocritical?
No, these aren't hypocrisies, they're investments. You know, spend a little of what you want to save in order to earn back more than what you spent in the first place.
Unless you're using the energy from the windmill to actively sequester carbon, you are not "earning back" any carbon, which is what the alternative energy is trying to save. Spending less carbon per unit of energy produced as compared to something like coal production is not a bad thing, but it's spending less it's not "earning back" no matter how hard you try to greenwash it.
We were so poor we couldn't afford a watchdog. If we heard a noise at night, we'd bark ourselves. -- Crazy Jimmy