Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact

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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