Kichwa Indigenous communities demand that Big Polluters buying carbon credits "assume their responsibilities for having invested in a Park that dispossessed us of our territories”.
Thank you for this post! Yes, it is time for the purchasers of carbon credits (indulgences) to face the full costs of that purchase, which is beyond the monetary amount paid, to cover the harms to the peoples who used to call that land their home. And there is likely other hidden costs, to the local environment and biome, that have yet to be documented. There is no free lunch for polluters.
Thank you for this post! Yes, it is time for the purchasers of carbon credits (indulgences) to face the full costs of that purchase, which is beyond the monetary amount paid, to cover the harms to the peoples who used to call that land their home. And there is likely other hidden costs, to the local environment and biome, that have yet to be documented. There is no free lunch for polluters.