TheCunningLinguists
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Carbon offsets were always capitalist snake oil.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-the-next-big-thing-in-carbon-removal-sunk-without-a-trace/
Carbon credits are the Daylight Savings Time of climate change mitigation:
"Only the government would believe that you can cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and get a longer blanket."
Questionablysensible
Honestly carbon credits were an attempt to use the capitalist system against itself- something that had worked in the past. Unfortunately it did nor achieve its goals this time
TofuGolem
Dear world,
As an American, I am telling you that the only way to get my country to damage the environment less is to damage our economy as much as possible. Nothing else will have any effect.
darkstarmc
Carbon offsets would be a great way for organizations to conserve land and forests
kurvarVillain
drhobotron
Everything these tech bros have been doing these last 20 years have been self-dealing circlejerks.
DownUpUpDown
Just gonna say it, these were Democrat policies.
TheCunningLinguists
The Dems are just as beholden to corporate interests. This concept was the only thing they could sell to the Rs and the money men to get some buy in on addressing climate change.
FiveHeadedSnakeGod
There's plenty of evidence that capitalism cannot stop catastrophic climate change. We change the system or we die.
reineseele
"But the shareholders."-Greedy rich f*cks who bribe greedy politicians to change laws so we are super cluster f*cked
absolutezero182
Sonicschilidogs
I mean, it does work in principle, but like most CC, it's not efficient enough to be net negative.
Targe0
True, but the reality is, it's also stuff that we need to do to fix the problem.
As even if we get to net-zero, we still have a 250 years worth of CO2 debt causing issues.
Getting to net-zero just means we stop taking on more CO2 debt, CO2 capture is needed to pay off that debt.
Even though it's not efficient, we still need to develop the sector, because we need to remove CO2, and not just stop emitting it.
As cutting emissions only stops thing getting worse, but doesn't help them get better.
swedeonamoose
We tried that in Sweden as well making our own carbon offsets, Electric mopeds for Ghana, so far we have spent 10 million usd on it with the goal of 48 thousand mopeds being built, so far 152 have been built and some of those have shown to just be repurposed gas mopeds
donthaveonebrojustlurk
Additionality!
MentalUproar
It’s not that it can’t be done or that it won’t work. It’s that the priority has always been to feed the parasites. If the don’t get their fill, there’s no longer a reason to press forward. This will continue until we swap out ivermectin for guillotines.
swedeonamoose
Only this was a goverment done thing with local enterprises in Ghana and no multi million/billion companies involved.
MentalUproar
You made your own motors, batteries, steel, etc?