Cambridge study says carbon offsets are not nearly as effective as they claim to be.
So, I actually read the article. It sounds like they could or should work, in theory, but because of fraud and/or marketplace incompetence, they do not. I bring this up only because I don’t think the discussion on the topic has been nuanced enough to distinguish between idea and implementation.
Carbon credits/offsets = bigger Ponzi scheme than nft + cryptocurrency!!! There’s none environmental protection with capitalism ruling!!! Plain & simple!
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“What do you mean just saying it’s fine doesn’t actually make everything fine?!”
Murder offsets:
I’m allowed to murder this guy because I opened a fertility clinic which is responsible for 20 new lives!
Carbon offsets are just as ridiculous.
Made me laugh, but strictly speaking, CO2 is fungible (interchangeable), but human lives aren’t.
If the overall goal is to increase the human population, it actually makes total sense
If the goal is to prevent murders, then no, it doesn’t make sense
Even if it’s just to increase the population, it doesn’t really make sense. Would a similar fertility clinic not exist without this person opening it? Would those babies not have been born otherwise?
A lot of carbon offsets are pretending that a forest was otherwise going to be cut down, when that was never a risk, or it’s selling the same trees to multiple people. Or the trees are actually cut down despite the offset.
