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Carbon credits are a scam.
by avery17 3y ago
Carbon credits are a scam.
- Alifatisk 3y agoHow? I did a quick lookup and the results points to the otherwise. https://consensus.app/results/?q=Does%20the%20carbon%20credits%20system%20actually%20work%3F&synthesize=on https://consensus.app/results/?q=Does%20the%20carbon%20credi...
- jabbawookiees 3y agoNot sure if this is what GP meant, but one funny thing about carbon credits is that energy producers that produce no emissions but don't do carbon capture (e.g. solar farms) can earn still carbon credits which they can sell to carbon emitters (e.g. steel mills). Zero is not a negative number, so the entire world can one day be "carbon neutral" following this funny accounting and physics won't care.
- viraptor 3y agoThey are in many cases. I was trying to show she at least seems to care enough to try to counteract her own impact. That likely means the tried to minimise the number of fights too.