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

  • Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social
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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

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
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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.