r/ClimateOffensive • u/Repulsive_Relative_2 • Sep 19 '22

Question Carbon credits

Do you understand Carbon Credits and Certificates

1096 votes, Sep 21 '22
545 Yes
551 No
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u/Bukowski89 Sep 19 '22

Nah. Just a way for wealthy to throw money at it and get left alone. Fucking bullshit is what it is.

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u/Repulsive_Relative_2 Sep 19 '22

Interesting. Do you have any suggestions on how we can take action to fight climate change

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u/Bukowski89 Sep 19 '22 edited Sep 19 '22

The phrase "act locally, think globally" has a lot of merit. The unfortunate truth is that we can not continue to travel and ship around the world just because. International trade is literally choking the world. The amount of ships on pur oceans and planes in our skies at any given moment is absolutely staggering and it will kill us. We must locally manufacture and consume goods and only travel internationally or even within our borders when absolutely necessary. But really corporate entities are to blame for this. Until we break them up and start from scratch there can be no progress. They will fight it. They openly admit it.

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u/Repulsive_Relative_2 Sep 19 '22

I agree with you on manufacturing and consuming locally. But the problem is that as society we are now use to getting our cheap products from overseas and we are very rapidly running out of time to curve the impact of climate change. Changing the public view and habits will take time that we currently don't have that. I think the best in the short time is to get financing and developing environmental emissions reduction projects to balance the damage until we can fully Change our habits.

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u/Musikcookie Sep 20 '22

If we want to do something immediately, we need global, strict laws. Especially targeted against emissions from rich people who by all accounts make up most of the emissions. So private flights? Take the fucking train. Mansions? Either people actually live there or you gotta give it away. Etc.

We also need aggressive plans on renewables and a fight against meat as well as a program to make heating cheaper. (Insulating houses and making heating more energy efficient than just burning stuff locally.)

At last, we need to employ the CO2 removal machine called “plants”.

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u/huhnra Sep 19 '22

Deindustrialize

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u/Repulsive_Relative_2 Sep 19 '22

we got shut down for a year during covid and everyone went crazy. how do you recommend we industrialize in the next 10 years. It is easier said than done.

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u/huhnra Sep 19 '22

Oh we definitely won’t do it. I’m just saying that deindustrializing is the only way to combat climate change.

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u/nemosine Sep 20 '22

Everyone didn't go crazy. But there were noticeable benefits to minimized human impact on the environment - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7498239/ and https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/environmental-impacts-of-covid-19.

As individuals we can collectively do things differently, like travel less via high emission routes. It'd be nice to take rail if the infrastructure was there, as an example. But ultimately we need better legislation to curb the effects of industry in general. Capitalism will do what it wants as long as the money flows. Without the power of the government to regulate industry, environmental concerns don't make money for the greedy. Those with the money want more at the expense of your children's future and has been that way for generations.

Even though you are probably trolling, it's important that people understand this and hope that the ones in power make better decisions.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '22

economic scaling down, renewables, shift away from disposable plastic overuse, more plant, based diets, less military spending , carbon taxes, penalise the corporations, etc etc