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If your rich and you pollute, it’s “fine”.
If your poor and you pollute, “what a dick”
If you’re rich and commit a crime, that’s an inconsequential fine.
If you’re poor and commit a crime, that’s crippling debt or jail time.
I vote we start calling them Carbon Indulgences.
I can’t believe how many people are just now realizing carbon offsets are a sham…
If you search on YouTube “carbon offsets”, the first result is the piece John Oliver did, which if you haven’t watched i really recommend you to.
I always liken it to the anti-child/slave labor movement in the late 90s. Companies learned if they just sub-subcontract, they can use child and/or slave labor and just keep saying, “[GAP] vociferously objects to slave and child labor. And through our rigorous internal investigation, we have found that a company we hired has in turn hired a company that was participating in this disgusting act. We have officially severed ties with the contractor which so profoundly failed in their quality control and, in [GAP’s] humble opinion, in their morality.”
[GAP] spits on the idea of slave labor pointedly
camera flashes, press murmurs as spokesperson leaves stand
[GAP] hires the contractor under their new LLC and continues profiting from slave labor
She should just directly fund new wind and solar energy non-profits.
Funny article title. Skimmed it - raised good points about some of general pitfalls of carbon offset
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Interestingly, I’m pretty sure she got that “dress” (really, it’s panties and a corset with a mesh dress over top) on Amazon. I saw nearly the same thing just today. It was $25 and listed as a rave costume.
So your drug hypothesis is supported so far….
(Yes yes, I know it’s not actually the same thing, but it might as well be… normal people wouldn’t go out wherever in that…)
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“carbon offsets” brought to you by the people who sold you “a calorie is a calorie”
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.
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
I think everyone should watch he John Oliver piece about it.
