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Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Cambridge study says carbon offsets are not nearly as effective as they claim to be.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the overall goal is to increase the human population, it actually makes total sense

If the goal is to prevent murders, then no, it doesn't make sense

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even if it's just to increase the population, it doesn't really make sense. Would a similar fertility clinic not exist without this person opening it? Would those babies not have been born otherwise?

A lot of carbon offsets are pretending that a forest was otherwise going to be cut down, when that was never a risk, or it's selling the same trees to multiple people. Or the trees are actually cut down despite the offset.