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A comment on Etsy Carbon-Offset Shipping.

Re:Etsy Carbon-Offset Shipping by ycombonator on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:24PM (#19935662)
What a bunch of bull. These investments support environmental projects, such as protecting forests that improve air quality and absorb carbon, sponsoring wind and solar farms that generate clean energy and replace fossil fuels, and developing greener methods for producing auto parts

The forests already exist, and the solar farms are built for profit. I would love to see Apples to Apples comparison of what this offsetting actually accomplished beyond the hyperbole.

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Re:Etsy Carbon-Offset Shipping by wapoamspomw on Thursday May 16, 2019 @11:17PM (#19935922)
Yea I would really like to see their assumptions and numbers for how these projects 100% offset their shipping emissions.
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