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Re:Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing by tsimionescu on Monday August 08, 2022 @02:59AM (#32383012)
One thing I'm looking at is the number of BEVs sold each year versus ICEVs. Sure, we're moving in a direction, but it's not fast enough to imagine the entire world will be using exclusively BEVs in 13 years - which is one of the requirements for 2.5 degrees. And I'm not even mentioning the fact that the trucking industry has no plans whatsoever to move to electrical any time soon, while the shipping and airplane industry have no such plans period.

Not to mention, we've recently seen things like Germany's Green government approving the construction of new coal-based power plants when they couldn't get enough gas from Russia, which really tells you how likely we are to move to renewables very quickly.

Most of the money going into renewables has been in addition to existing fossil fuel plants, so at best covering growth in energy demands. But to stop global warming at 2.5 degrees, we need a sharp decline in fossil fuel consumption, and that just isn't happening, not globally and not in most places in the world locally either.

Re:Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing by ZeroGravitas on Monday August 08, 2022 @12:12PM (#32387367)
> the trucking industry has no plans whatsoever to move to electrical any time soon, while the shipping and airplane industry have no such plans period.

Shipping industries plan:

https://www.globalmaritimeforum.org/getting-to-zero-coalitio...

Aviation's plan:

https://www.iata.org/en/programs/environment/flynetzero/

Road freight's plan:

https://www.weforum.org/projects/decarbonizing-road-freight-...

https://clean-trucking.eu/