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Re:Google says its carbon footprint is now zero by corty on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:00PM (#24471712)
You can sell the negative carbon as offsets to others. Lots of products are greened up by just buying offsets instead of really doing something, so there is lots of money in it.
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Re:Google says its carbon footprint is now zero by xyzzyz on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:34PM (#24472112)
Buying copious amounts of offsets is probably how Google gets to claim it’s carbon neutral in the first place.
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