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I take an optimistically cynical view of this pattern. As a rule, we tend to solve things wrong the first few tries. Carbon offsets and credits and the policy
by cagenut 4y ago
I take an optimistically cynical view of this pattern. As a rule, we tend to solve things wrong the first few tries. Carbon offsets and credits and the policy and technology and market pricing soup is going to be an absolute shit show before it can hope to get past that point, so on with the shit show. First the visionaries over promise, then the con artists do, then the marketers do, then sales, then product, then engineering does, and then it works.
- macspoofing 4y ago>Carbon offsets and credits and the policy and technology and market pricing soup is going to be an absolute shit show before it can hope to get past that point, The problem with carbon offsets and carbon credits is that they try to incentivize moving off of carbon, but we don't have a way to actually replace carbon - so it becomes this little marketing and accounting trick.
- cagenut 4y agowe have lots of ways to replace lots of carbon in lots of places. system engineering does not work in binaries, there are dozens of curves with plenty of room to bend.
- macspoofing 4y agoLike moving from coal to natural gas?
- cagenut 4y agoincidentally if anyone wants to go in on a bamboo farm in thailand that just buries biochar in a ditch lmk