But remember this planet has been trying for all its life to move carbon out of the biosphere so that Life can succeed, successfully sequestering it deep underground coal, oil and gas. And then we pull it all out of the ground and burn it in only 200 years? Thinking there would be no consequences? Regarding "Nature-based Solutions" - that WAS Nature's solution, millions of years of sequestering weathering of rocks, etc., and we blew that away in 200 years. There is NOTHING in Nature that can make up for 200 years of burning, within our lifetimes. We have doomed the planet for eons.
Offsets are just a modern indulgences, a gift to Wall Street.
This is a great report and it pushes almost all the buttons. But every bit of this was covered in my 2013 article (TEN years ago!) at https://truthout.org/articles/can-oxygen-pricing-help-save-the-environment/
But remember this planet has been trying for all its life to move carbon out of the biosphere so that Life can succeed, successfully sequestering it deep underground coal, oil and gas. And then we pull it all out of the ground and burn it in only 200 years? Thinking there would be no consequences? Regarding "Nature-based Solutions" - that WAS Nature's solution, millions of years of sequestering weathering of rocks, etc., and we blew that away in 200 years. There is NOTHING in Nature that can make up for 200 years of burning, within our lifetimes. We have doomed the planet for eons.
Offsets are just a modern indulgences, a gift to Wall Street.