I've concluded carbon offset credits are generally a bad idea (not always). Not just because both science and pricing models are shaky, but because it is far too easy to use them like indulgences of the sort handed out by the medieval catholic church. Get out of jail free cards.
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Climate action should focus primarily on actually re-engineering processes to decarbonize them. Not this dubious book-keeping game with rainforests and such.
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even with optimistic decarbonization its very likely we will need negative emissions as well, yes it is crucial that those solutions don't suffer from the same issues as traditional offsets
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Agreed, which is too bad because allowing tradeable credits under a fixed total regulatory cap wouldn't be bad. But the offset credits are kind of scammy.
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On paper it could make sense but I always think about this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_Oil



