Green Left: A new British government "kitemark" suggests that most carbon offset schemes are flawed, but fails to address the more fundamental problem of paying others to clean up after us. Carbon offset schemes promise, for a fee, to "offset" the carbon emissions of a consumer by engaging in a "carbon-friendly" activity elsewhere in the world, such as investing in a renewable energy or forestry project. Offset companies across Britain were petulantly stamping their carbon footprints …