Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing

Re:Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing by quickthrower2 on Sunday August 07, 2022 @09:31PM (#32381607)

Sorry that your family had to go through that, and all the people in affected industries, but the lockdowns also saved a lot of lives. Probably millions. Thousands of 9/11s. Worldwide. A lockdown "here" prevents covid spreading both here .... and there.

The main topic of this thread is saving humanity from adverse man-made climate change. We are also talking about saving millions here.

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Re:Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing by yata69420 on Sunday August 07, 2022 @09:49PM (#32381716)

I was in favor of aggressive lockdowns at the time, but I live in a part of the US that proudly does not lockdown or wear masks. I think we had 2 weeks of total "lockdown" when people were legitimately scared. We haven't had significantly more deaths per capita than other stricter parts of the country.

We now have examples from all around the globe. China's super strict approach seems like it sort of worked for a while, but even they had cases.

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Re:Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing by drekk on Sunday August 07, 2022 @11:14PM (#32382111)

Really disingenuous to compare the US to China in this way as if they are comparable failures. We're talking about under a million cases and 5,000 deaths. In the US we had 91 million cases and over a million deaths. Especially embarrassing for the US to loudly proclaim how impossible it is to do anything in a country this size when China's mainland is about the same land area with 3x the population. China's "super strict approach" didn't "sort of work for awhile". If they had taken a US approach millions more people would be dead.

The US is 91 million of the 584 million cases identified so far. It's ~5% of the global population with pretty low density outside of, what, 3 cities? Truly embarrassing that one of the wealthiest G8 countries can't handle outbreaks of any sort — to the point that NY has identified hundreds of polio cases for the first time in a decade.

It's not going to be pretty if the US faces another outbreak of something that kills and cripples the way that polio did just a few generations ago. I'm not convinced the answer then won't be the same, except now instead of sacrificing grandma we can place anyone on the altar of capital.

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Re:Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing by emkoemko on Monday August 08, 2022 @12:10AM (#32382321)

are you really going to take CPP numbers as fact? and even right now they still locking cities down in authoritarian ways that is killing people.... their approach has not worked... they are still living in lock downs who knows what the real numbers will be

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Re:Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing by quickthrower2 on Monday August 08, 2022 @12:36AM (#32382421)

Good point, better to compare US against Australia and NZ. The UK was sort of in between Australia and US in terms of lockeddown-ness.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

Click on deaths per 100,000

Draw your own conclusions.

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Re:Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing by emkoemko on Monday August 08, 2022 @12:07PM (#32387294)

never said USA did well during pandemic... i mean didn't like 380,000 die just because they lacked health care in the USA? couldn't that also be a factor?

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Re:Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing by origin_path on Monday August 08, 2022 @06:52AM (#32384094)

"the lockdowns also saved a lot of lives"

No, they didn't. This has been studied six ways from Sunday. They had no effect.

"Probably millions"

Lol. If you're an epidemiologist, sure, they love fantasy numbers like this.

Actual numbers of lives saved are probably negative, given the apparent absence of any impact on case numbers combined with the poverty and loss of access to healthcare they created.

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Re:Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing by yonaguska on Monday August 08, 2022 @07:44AM (#32384384)

Zero proof of this. Lockdowns destroyed lives as well.

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Re:Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing by quickthrower2 on Monday August 08, 2022 @12:46AM (#32382455)

Had a quick skim of the first reference. It would take me days to digest it all. One thing I think of though is Italy. Very strict right. Except as I recall they weren't, until it got real bad. So high deaths due to fast spread can cause lockdowns. This might skew things.

I am not say "always lock down", but when it is appropriate it is a good tool. NSW, Australia was very locked down ... until vaccination rates were up high and then it suddenly wasn't. I feel like although NSW has it's fair share of blunders, it did pretty well overall. Some of that was good luck despite some bad decisions. But I am happy with the lockdowns even though they were disruptive. Some businesses suffered, and some did better. Suburban hospitality seemed to do well as people working from home are now getting their lunch local not in the city.

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Re:Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing by selimthegrim on Monday August 08, 2022 @02:10AM (#32382799)

I would like to see your Benford’s law analysis and compare it to the Iranian elections.

What natural immunity obtains against variants like Omicron?

And you talk about birth rates being down, what about COVID stillbirths in unvaccinated mothers?

https://www.propublica.org/article/covid-maternity-stillbirt...

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Re:Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing by selimthegrim on Monday August 08, 2022 @09:59AM (#32385455)

What of adenoviruses or Novovax? Are there any vaccines that meet your approval?

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