Google says its carbon footprint is now zero

Re:Google says its carbon footprint is now zero by haxnewsben on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:09PM (#24471822)

The idea is though, once the low hanging fruit of cheap offsetting dries up, causing offsets to become more expensive, the more appealing the price of carbon neutral energy becomes.

Say now the reason people still burn coal is because it's cheap and you can offset it cheaply, once offestting becomes more expensive, you may as well spend the same total amount, but buy green energy instead of coal+an offest.

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Re:Google says its carbon footprint is now zero by throwaway894345 on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:22PM (#24471975)

Absolutely. Carbon offsets are a pretty cool solution, but I really want border-adjusted carbon taxes (border adjustment is a tax on imports from countries without a carbon tax so we don't just ship our carbon emitting work overseas). I favor carbon taxes because they're mandatory and more fool-proof (it's easier to measure carbon emitted than carbon that is not emitted).

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