Re:Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing
by ZeroGravitas on Monday August 08, 2022 @06:26AM
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This is a bit simplistic, the general plan is to slow growth and then reduce aiming for net zero around 2050.
There's plenty of science looking at those trajectories and arguing about if we are on schedule and what needs to be done to stick to the schedule and if its enough.
But its a bit more sophisticated than, if the line isn't going down today, we should just give up.
Another weird thing is that, it's fairly easy to make fossil fuels less carbon intense to eke them out a bit longer e.g. don't flare or leak raw methane which is much worse than the carbon you'd get from burning it. That's a good change that actually increases fossil fuel production and that we currently subsidize doing the opposite in the US.
There's plenty of science looking at those trajectories and arguing about if we are on schedule and what needs to be done to stick to the schedule and if its enough.
But its a bit more sophisticated than, if the line isn't going down today, we should just give up.
Another weird thing is that, it's fairly easy to make fossil fuels less carbon intense to eke them out a bit longer e.g. don't flare or leak raw methane which is much worse than the carbon you'd get from burning it. That's a good change that actually increases fossil fuel production and that we currently subsidize doing the opposite in the US.