Carbon offsets are so clearly a scam for companies to make net zero claims while changing nothing about their industry. And then when a 10 year special investigation that wasted millions of dollars uncovers the truth about carbon offsets, companies can just say "Oops! See, we were fooled by those scammers too!" and by then they'll have probably found their next scapegoat.
This isn't even necessarily tech. A bunch of models do assume we're going to figure out how to physically pull GHGs out of the air (a new favorite argument from those with ties to oil - "don't worry bro, we'll capture it later") with new tech but a bunch of these offsets are just trees.
Here's the bullshit:
Most projects look at historical deforestation within a region to forecast a baseline deforestation rate, or the amount of deforestation that would have happened without the project’s intervention, West said. The problem is, it’s all based on hypotheticals.
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