“Climate Opium”: Putting Whales into the Carbon Markets

An excerpt from a forthcoming book entitled “Climate Opium” explores how we are overdosing on false solutions to climate change, so much that the biggest mammals on earth are being forced into carbon pricing schemes. The excerpt focuses on how whales are being reduced to a giant carbon offset business opportunity based on how much carbon dioxide whales absorb and how their iron-rich excrement serves as food for tiny marine algae called phytoplankton, who also absorb carbon dioxide.