“Flimflam,” “bait and switch,” or “switcheroo” — these were some things my grandfather said to warn of proposals that seemed too good to be true.
On our farm, he saw his fair share of these kinds of offers, from salesmen pitching the latest, yet untested variety of seeds, to equipment dealers trying to convince us that buying another, larger tractor would help increase yields and solve our financial problems.
I fear there’s something similar happening with legislative proposals such as the Growing Climate Solutions Act, which make carbon markets central to confronting climate change.
