Cambridge study says carbon offsets are not nearly as effective as they claim to be.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Murder offsets:

    I’m allowed to murder this guy because I opened a fertility clinic which is responsible for 20 new lives!

    Carbon offsets are just as ridiculous.

    • Postcard64@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Made me laugh, but strictly speaking, CO2 is fungible (interchangeable), but human lives aren’t.

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      1 year ago

      If the overall goal is to increase the human population, it actually makes total sense

      If the goal is to prevent murders, then no, it doesn’t make sense

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        1 year ago

        Even if it’s just to increase the population, it doesn’t really make sense. Would a similar fertility clinic not exist without this person opening it? Would those babies not have been born otherwise?

        A lot of carbon offsets are pretending that a forest was otherwise going to be cut down, when that was never a risk, or it’s selling the same trees to multiple people. Or the trees are actually cut down despite the offset.