The Nature Conservancy’s job has been to identify habitat preservation and conservation projects to “offset the impacts of oil and gas drilling pads and infrastructure.” From a climate change perspective, this is an absurd proposition, since these projects have no hope of offsetting the most damaging impact of all: the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. Which is why the most important preservation work that any environmental group can do is preserving the carbon in the ground, wherever it is. (Then again, this is The Nature Conservancy, which has its very own gas well in the
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