An easy way out

This is the easy way out.
Capitalism via environmentalism.
Two companies are researching plankton as a way of offsetting carbon. I have two problems with this idea. First, shouldn't companies be looking for ways to reduce emissions, rather than just even it out. It just seems they're hiding their emissions behind their offsets. My second problem has to do with the plankton companies. They're working on something that could be potentially great, but they're concerned about the profit. Uh, how bout the possibility of adding to measures to save the effing world. I just hate that money outweighs doing the right thing.