Our “own issue” is that the rich global North uses too much energy, about 30x world average per-capita. This emits tonnes of CO2 by using the atmosphere as a garbage dump. To “greenwash” this activity, to make us feel not so guilty, we simply seize by economic colonialism, other people’s lands and try to pretend that by “saving” the forests there, we can buy some time to continue our wasteful existence a while longer. The other pretention is that we can collect enough “credit” for supposedly saving the forests, that we can show enough credit to balance our emissions debt all the way to zero, magically, without ever actually cutting back on our emissions! It’s a dream come true! We keep on with our extravagant lifestyle, the forests are “saved,” the people there live happily ever after, everyone makes money and there’s a chicken in every garage.
On 21 November 2024, I asked you not to use replies on REDD-Monitor to promote your version of climate denial. "I'll block you if you do so again," I wrote. You've commented more than once since then - each time promoting climate denial. You're blocked.
Regarding who owes whom, people are welcome to their own opinion, but not welcome to create their own facts. The facts of centuries of colonialism are manifest - the rich nations by means of military power, harvested immense resources, both material and human, from the “uncivilized” parts of the world with virtually no compensation and this system carries forward with “carbon colonialism.” Meanwhile, as if taking any valuable resource was not enough, we also find more and more creative ways to export our debt to them, a major factor keeping them in permanent poverty (read servitude).
Its very clear that carbon credits cause far more problems than they fix on what is a non problem anyway..
Why don’t we and the UN just stay out of local economics and stop interfering and focus on our own issues.
Our “own issue” is that the rich global North uses too much energy, about 30x world average per-capita. This emits tonnes of CO2 by using the atmosphere as a garbage dump. To “greenwash” this activity, to make us feel not so guilty, we simply seize by economic colonialism, other people’s lands and try to pretend that by “saving” the forests there, we can buy some time to continue our wasteful existence a while longer. The other pretention is that we can collect enough “credit” for supposedly saving the forests, that we can show enough credit to balance our emissions debt all the way to zero, magically, without ever actually cutting back on our emissions! It’s a dream come true! We keep on with our extravagant lifestyle, the forests are “saved,” the people there live happily ever after, everyone makes money and there’s a chicken in every garage.
On 21 November 2024, I asked you not to use replies on REDD-Monitor to promote your version of climate denial. "I'll block you if you do so again," I wrote. You've commented more than once since then - each time promoting climate denial. You're blocked.
Thank you Chris, people must be more responsible.
Regarding who owes whom, people are welcome to their own opinion, but not welcome to create their own facts. The facts of centuries of colonialism are manifest - the rich nations by means of military power, harvested immense resources, both material and human, from the “uncivilized” parts of the world with virtually no compensation and this system carries forward with “carbon colonialism.” Meanwhile, as if taking any valuable resource was not enough, we also find more and more creative ways to export our debt to them, a major factor keeping them in permanent poverty (read servitude).