Re:Google says its carbon footprint is now zero
by ip26 on Monday September 14, 2020 @06:31PM
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Is $50/ton really so expensive? At that price you could sequester average household emissions for $375/yr.
Can't help but note, flood or wildfire insurance (for people in risk areas) has climbed in cost a lot more than $375/yr.
$375/household/yr sounds downright cheap to me, if it gets us out of this hurricane/wildfire/drought/flood cycle.
Re:Google says its carbon footprint is now zero
by soperj on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:02PM
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I get that, but they haven't actually arrived at zero. They've arrived at their version of zero, and thus have incentive to get to actual zero, since they're already at "zero".
Re:Google says its carbon footprint is now zero
by sp332 on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:19PM
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Maintaining "net zero" takes a lot of work/money. It's not something you can do once. Every time you put carbon into the atmosphere, you have to go buy an offset. Over time those offsets get more expensive.
And as sibling comment mentions, climate change is bad for business too, so that's the incentive for net-negative.