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The Carbon Offset Problem (www.youtube.com)
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[โ€“] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

18:50 - If people are given the opportunity to turn a profit by fudging the numbers, people are going to turn a profit by fudging the numbers. Not only is the market enabling this action, it's incentivizing it by funneling the vast majority of money into the cheapest, least verifiable, most exploitable projects.

20:42 - Carbon can be truly offset. But that's not what the market incentivizes. The market incentivizes the scam. The market incentivizes a race to the bottom. The market incentivizes the scenario where carbon offsetting, as a cohesive phenomenon, has genuine potential to accelerate our march towards climate catastrophe.

The problem is capitalism. The problem is capitalism. THE PROBLEM IS CAPITALISM.

THE. PROBLEM. IS. CAPITALISM.

I'm getting real tired of all these major creators beating around the bush. Wendover, Kurzgesagt, Hank Green. All of them refuse to even acknowledge that this is a failure of capitalism at all, much less acknowledge that, to save the planet, capitalism must be supplanted by socialism.

It's socialism or barbarism, and we're well down the path of barbarism.

[โ€“] guojing@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Not just abstract capitalism. This capitalist system is controlled by the United States (or whoever controls that country).