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Is anyone else here immediately turned off the moment a company mentions "carbon neutral"? I'm willing to look past it as a standard marketing slogan, like "nat
by triangleman 11y ago
Is anyone else here immediately turned off the moment a company mentions "carbon neutral"? I'm willing to look past it as a standard marketing slogan, like "natural", "fair trade", etc., but it stands out as a particularly unfortunate bit of language in almost all cases.
- anigbrowl 11y agoNot me. I see it as a plus, not so much on saving the planet as a positive for the balance sheet. Carbon* is an externality, I would prefer to deal with/invest in a business that accounts for externalities instead of just producing them and hoping to evade the bill.
- hueving 11y agoBut in this case, like many others, they are just lying by excluding the carbon from the manufacturing of all of their equipment, their heating source, the transportation of their ingredients, etc.