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Selling Hot Air: Deforestation Carbon Offsets Don't Work, Study Finds
(themessenger.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Of course it’s bullshit. Those trees already exist and haven’t offset the pollution yet, why would not cutting them down now be literally any different, even assuming that actually happened (which the article made pretty clear isn’t the case, those scamming scammy liars)?
Planting and maintaining new trees, maybe, but simply not cutting down the little that’s left? That’s a money making scheme, not an actual solution to literally anything except maybe deforestation.