Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact
Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact
Cambridge study says carbon offsets are not nearly as effective as they claim to be.
Cambridge study says carbon offsets are not nearly as effective as they claim to be.
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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.
Made me laugh, but strictly speaking, CO2 is fungible (interchangeable), but human lives aren't.
Depends on your values.
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
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.