Re-writing #3: It seems impossible to measure how much harm cheating on someone does. With carbon offsetting, there is currently no practically feasible way of measuring how much harm carbon offset projects actually do. Otherwise, great analogy, thanks for sharing!
Can you be so clever to come up with a Solution - such as Removal - which is not cheating but positive action - show how much you have learned in the time since as science and method has moved on
Thanks for this comment. We do need to reduce deforestation, and we do need to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere.
But the key driver of the climate crisis is burning fossil fuels. Leaving fossil fuels in the ground is the key solution to the climate crisis.
Saving the rainforests and CO₂ removal are not solutions to the climate crisis, as long as they are being used by the fossil fuel industry to legitimise continued business as usual.
Climate scientist David Ho explains the problem clearly in a 2023 paper in Nature: “Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless”.
See my latest post https://kathleenmccroskey.substack.com/p/20-01-88141 which describes restorative pathway. An important part is getting people, esp the 1%, to reduce consumption, including energy, to world average.
Re-writing #3: It seems impossible to measure how much harm cheating on someone does. With carbon offsetting, there is currently no practically feasible way of measuring how much harm carbon offset projects actually do. Otherwise, great analogy, thanks for sharing!
Can you be so clever to come up with a Solution - such as Removal - which is not cheating but positive action - show how much you have learned in the time since as science and method has moved on
Thanks for this comment. We do need to reduce deforestation, and we do need to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere.
But the key driver of the climate crisis is burning fossil fuels. Leaving fossil fuels in the ground is the key solution to the climate crisis.
Saving the rainforests and CO₂ removal are not solutions to the climate crisis, as long as they are being used by the fossil fuel industry to legitimise continued business as usual.
Climate scientist David Ho explains the problem clearly in a 2023 paper in Nature: “Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless”.
https://reddmonitor.substack.com/p/drastically-reduce-emissions-first
See my latest post https://kathleenmccroskey.substack.com/p/20-01-88141 which describes restorative pathway. An important part is getting people, esp the 1%, to reduce consumption, including energy, to world average.