• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Ah yes, the “We’ll pay someone else to be green for us without meaningfully improving our environmental policy” move.

    Toss some money away, get a nice tax write-off, and don’t bother following up to make sure these supposed CO2 offset numbers are actually what they are advertised to be.

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      5 months ago

      The frustrating part is that the whole idea is great on its face: pay to capture the co2 you generate where they can do so at scale, but this just… clearly doesn’t do that.

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      5 months ago

      It’s a fantastic idea in principle. We’ve just neglected the most important ingredient: oversight