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Ika Makimaki

Quick reminder that at least a decent chunk of the forests *still burning* in Canada were part of the "offsets" countries and companies pay for as credits in Carbon Trading schemes meant for them to keep polluting guilt-free.

The "offsets" are now in the atmosphere heating the planet. As well as the original emissions.

Good stuff. /s

That's part of why Emissions Trading Schemes are little more than fancy accounting and should never be accepted as Climate Action.

#BlahBlahBlah #ClimateCrisis

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Space Hobo Actual

@pezmico It's almost as if donations to sperm banks don't actually work as "murder offset credits" or something.

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@pezmico Billionaires make better carbon offsets and don't tend to enter the atmosphere.

Risotto

@pezmico

sustainable (a checklist):
- verifiable - not a scam
- measurable - net benefit, meterable
- permanent - not just delayed destruction
- additive (not something that would have happened anyway)
- scaleable - industry
- affordable - dirt-cheap materials

carbon trading isn't a net benefit, especially isn't permanent, isn't additive, and mostly isn't verifiable

the only thing going for it is "forests are big and companies can afford the tax offset"

@pezmico

sustainable (a checklist):
- verifiable - not a scam
- measurable - net benefit, meterable
- permanent - not just delayed destruction
- additive (not something that would have happened anyway)
- scaleable - industry
- affordable - dirt-cheap materials

carbon trading isn't a net benefit, especially isn't permanent, isn't additive, and mostly isn't verifiable

Molly Cranberries-Kraig πŸ¦ƒ

@pezmico

THANK YOU. Offsets are little more than β€œI’d gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today” climate change/carbon reduction philosophy.

fluids_guru

@pezmico Using forests as `carbon stores' during the #Pyrocene was never going to work

TransitBiker

@pezmico you mean the mass monoculture isn’t a silver bullet for climate change?! 😨

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