"What offsets"?
"Ah, don't worry about it, it's just something we'll come up with next time this ruse runs out of steam"
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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Doesn't this mean a Reformation is on the way?
Reformation fixed nothing. When my grandpa died, his Catholic Church which he donated and volunteered for over two decades, charged my grandma money so that the priest would mention his name in a blessing during Sunday mass.
Right. The reformation also spawned the protestant church. Joel Osteen doesn’t exactly embody the anti-indulgence church either. If the reformation had led people away from the church, it would have fixed it. Instead there are multiple sides, each one pointing at the other and saying “well, we’re not like them though”.
I thought there was a bit more reasoning behind it, it probably depends on it being a mandatory thing: pollute less or you have to pay money. It’s trying to incentivize companies to produce less pollution, since the only thing they care about is money, you have to make them “feel” pollution through money. It seems like the whole “system” probably needs some more teeth to force countries to make harder decisions and not just using it as a form of indulgences, it should be used as a fine/punishment. We’re well past the point of no return, but we should be getting more serious about this.
100% - even as satire the cartoon in OP misses the mark. The only people I've seen paint carbon credits that way in the US tend to vote for the party of climate change denialism, so tend to be about as well informed and truthful as you'd expect. So it's a pretty good zinger if the person reading it doesn't actually know the intent behind carbon offsets.
Crux, Crux, et non est crux