Thanks, that was much needed!

Sir, our problems on planet earth are just too serious to allow us from not spelling out some uncomfortable truths. In this respect, with your ‘Carbon markets create a muddle”, April 26, and the investigations that preceded it, and hopefully those that will follow, you are performing a tremendous service to all of us who believe that the climate change threat is for real and therefore require that the actions to combat it should also be for real.

The current carbon market where we sell indulgences for some fairly undefined sins, and use the proceeds for even less defined good deeds, after paying some intermediaries a commission, will just not cut it; much less so if we leave it in the hands of blind believers or of a hypocritical environmental clergy.

PS. Fast forward a decade: What if the indulgences revenues are democraticaly shared by all? Carbon dividends?