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Carbon Offsets (Taylor’s Version) | The pop star’s use of hazily defined offsets to deflect criticism perfectly illustrates how the offsets market works in practice. (newrepublic.com)
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[-] Pietson@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Always had the feeling there was something fishy about these carbon offset programmes. It just doesn't seem like a problem that can be solved by throwing more cash at it. Sad to hear this is indeed the case for most of these companies.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it takes having buyer and seller wanting to prevent emissions and using a third party auditor to verify. What we actually have is buyer and seller colluding with auditors to produce PR instead of emissions cuts

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I think everyone should watch he John Oliver piece about it.

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