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Displacing dirty power with clean power cannot bring your carbon footprint to zero. Your cleanest power cannot not emit. Google may become cleaner but that isn'
by rcMgD2BwE72F 6y ago
Displacing dirty power with clean power cannot bring your carbon footprint to zero. Your cleanest power cannot not emit. Google may become cleaner but that isn't the point.
- actuator 6y agoIsn't rest offsets? Like they helping cut emission from non Google things and using that to offset what they can't eliminate from their own emissions. It still reduces emissions on the whole.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoOfcourse it can, you can pull carbon directly out of the atmosphere and have negative emissions. Energy consumption of sequestation coupled with carbon footprint of solar/wind/nuclear works out to be nagative. The IPCC stipulates negative emissions in the second half of the century. Lastly, our carbon budget is not zero, if everyone kept to carbon budget of 3 tons of CO2 per person we'd never have climate change to begin with.