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> that would have been released anyways By any chance, does money change hands? "Carbon credits"? Guess what! I'll start a brewery and brew billions of tons o
by danuker 5y ago
> that would have been released anyways
By any chance, does money change hands? "Carbon credits"?
Guess what! I'll start a brewery and brew billions of tons of CO2 unless you pay me!
The carbon credit industry is a scam, and it does not actually affect the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.
- MobiusHorizons 5y agoTo be fair, in order to produce co2 as a brewer, you must first have a sugar source for the yeast to eat. This is typically grain, which captures the co2 from the air using solar energy. Farming clearly also has an impact on the environment requiring energy and water to produce and transport, but the co2 locked up in that grain would be released to the environment most of the other ways that grain could get metabolized. Seems like not that bad of an outcome really.
- aeternum 5y agoIt might be a scam as currently implemented but doesn't need to be. Cap and trade worked very well for CFCs. In your example, why doesn't the brewery need to pay a tax for the CO2 released both in manufacture and as part of product-use?