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Re:Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate i... by postmodest on Sunday August 27, 2023 @04:01PM (#37286105)
> "researchers" rake in grant money based on promoting apocalyptic levels of fear

This is a bad take. We are currently living in apocalyptic levels of REALITY.

The people saying what you just said, but twenty, thirty, fifty years ago, were speaking out against the warnings that--if we'd acted in them instead of attacking the messenger as you did-- could've kept us from global wildfire and heat domes.

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Re:Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate i... by quixoticelixer- on Sunday August 27, 2023 @04:29PM (#37286352)
The world isn't actually going to end.
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Re:Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate i... by gattilorenz on Sunday August 27, 2023 @04:50PM (#37286517)
No, but I'd prefer not to have to deal with more and more extreme weather events, increased sea levels, etc. The planet will survive, we as a species probably too, but it's going to get shittier for many of us.
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Re:Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate i... by panarchy on Sunday August 27, 2023 @04:52PM (#37286533)
No, but our quality of life sure will (and already has for some people)
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Re:Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate i... by ClumsyPilot on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:01PM (#37287032)
> The world isn't actually going to end.

The world didn't end after the Black death and it did not end after WW2. And it will not end after a nuclear war.

So we should never do anything because the world is never going to end.

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Re:Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate i... by paulmd on Monday August 28, 2023 @01:05AM (#37289980)
no no, actually the sun will swallow the earth in a few million years so thats why we should do nothing.

(/s but there certainly is a strain of the media/public that blasted right past “it’s not real” to “welp it’s real and it’s too late to do anything about it, let’s do nothing”.)

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Re:Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate i... by InSteady on Sunday August 27, 2023 @07:03PM (#37287503)
Careful, your tired old strawman is liable to burn up in the next round of wildfires.
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