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[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 hours ago

that would be great if it didn't get used as a way to keep emitting pollution, unfortunately in the current political climate any sort of carbon capture or carbon credits are just a smokescreen.

AFAIK the best we can manage to usefully do is encourage using wood in construction, which sequesters something approaching a noticable amount of carbon and is fairly difficult to greenwash. But it's still basically pointless compared to just getting people to drive less..

[-] sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

I agree that there are issues with the accounting behind people who want to use these as carbon credits, but that's true of planting trees, too. And nobody says that planting trees is bad or that it gets used as an excuse to keep emitting.

The point is that it's worth doing, and that any fraud around the accounting behind getting credit for it is separate from the validity of the task itself.

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