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covers all the ways carbon offsets are greenwashing scams, and it's big. Apparently even the Nature Conservancy is in on it. 😩 Heartbreaking episode—yet still somehow wildly entertaining. Watch!

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Carbon Offsets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver explains what carbon offsets are, what they claim to do, how they might be making climate change even worse, and, of course, how Oscar Isaac is g...

5:11 PM · Aug 22, 2022

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He draws pretty heavily from this piece, which is brutal:

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Nature Conservancy Hooked Corporate America on an Empty Climate Solution

Companies say they’re saving forests by buying offsets, but many of these lands don’t need defending

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

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Ooh must read. I missed that when it was published.

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Can we talk about how John is emerging as a key climate communicator? For every TV journalist who thought climate was too complicated to explain on television, John and his staff are running rings around them!

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Right??

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Uproarious! Even if offsets “work” perfectly and do good things, they delay the energy transition. A good thing that defers the essential thing isn't good.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

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He should do an episode on carbon capture

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omg YES

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manages to make me laugh, cry, and be enraged all at the same time, all while delivering vital, underreported information. He'd make a great teacher if he wasn't already, you know, famous.

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I saw it. Thought the same. Heartbreaking and disappointing. Consumers, me included, need to be more involved in what is being done with the money that is placed on those schemes.