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Re:Google to end support for OnHub routers in 2022 by bragr on Monday December 20, 2021 @05:58PM (#29631607)
The answer is carbon offsets

Whether carbon offsets actually work is another issue though

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Re:Google to end support for OnHub routers in 2022 by ClumsyPilot on Monday December 20, 2021 @06:07PM (#29631685)
Most of them don't. Loopholes allow dxisting forests to be used to create huge amount of carbon credits without doing anything. Everyone knows but hardly anyone cares.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/07/994774148/emission-impossible

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Re:Google to end support for OnHub routers in 2022 by crygin on Monday December 20, 2021 @06:15PM (#29631750)
Even if forests are planted, climate change will burn them to the ground regardless. It already is: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/27/wildfires-rage-carb...
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