The Big Problem With Carbon Offsets
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2023
- Imagine a financial tool that lowers greenhouse gasses, speeds the green transition and rejuvenates forests. That’s the promise of carbon offsets, but far from the reality. In this segment from Getting Warmer, Kal Penn explains how carbon offset markets work, or in most cases don’t.
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I was about to burn a billion barrels of oil, decided against it, and now I'm carbon neutral for the next 50 years.
How much do we owe you?
From a doctor to be an Activist.
Great Job Kumar 👏
I was thinking the same
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Hook and Sinkers
Carbon offset landowners are even doubling up and signing up with multiple offset companies. It's all just a huge scam.
Pretty obvious
Count me in!
He just exposed the whole scam, it's the monetary side, it's a new economy
and control over populations
If I take probiotics, I should be able to claim carbon credits on my taxes for decreased carbon emissions....
If you take seaweed to why not? Secret Societies of influence based in Money Laundering capitals like Switzerland should may pay Huuuuuuge carbon taxes. Maybe huge Carbon Taxes for Medical Upcoding, H.a.a.r.p. conducting corrupt illuminati ish conspiracies, and who can forget Syngenta's Atrazine, without that people might actually be healthier.
It's a scam
In the United Kingdom, big corporations are purchasing farmers' properties and planting trees. The farmers are happy to sell to these corporations because the farmers in Britain have lost their EU subsidies as a result of Brexit. The farmers themselves are happy to sell because they are offered a price way above the actual value of their farm. Therefore less produce is available in a lot of the Uk markets as a result of Brexit., which of course increases prices because of a shrinking supply chain.
The only winners are the mega-corporations, who make political donations to the parties that make the legislation.
Brexit causes scurvy.
Someone should sell environmental offsets. That way, people can drive electric cars and still post about having a massive carbon footprint. Or companies can gain the technological benefits of decarbonisitng the supply chain whilst not being cancelled for being woke.
Not just the UK , Bill Gates owns most of the farm land in America along with big corporations , Ukraine , most of the agricultural land is owned by Blackrock or Vanguard.
When do we go to White Castle? Are they going to be carbon neutral too?
Thank you!I thought I was the only one!😂😂
Okay now i understand what this is - Ive watched 3 other videos befre yours just trying to understand what the heck Carbon offset is - i think they all just wanted to sound smart that it just made their explanations more complicating - thank you!
It seems like business as usual. We are doomed. Thanks for the report
Awesome~~^^🎉🎉
I LIKE THESE!
This is pretty much like punching someone in the face at recess, being told by the teacher and your parents to apologize and then giving a fake apology with your fingers crossed behind your back 🤷🏻♂️
'Here's a multi-millionaire to explain it all...'
Carbon offset money are going back to big companies pockets... What a joke
The mini second a person can make a profit from doing something they will try to cheat!
There are so many trusted & effective nature conservation NGOs whose primary goal it is to restore nature and help communities - and they are in desperate need of funding. Yet big business would rather invest big cash in fly-by-night & dodgy companies whose sole purpose is to make profit? Are we surprised it all went wromg? Or perhaps that was the point - something corrupt is going on...
Kal Peen needs to be in whatever Kiefer Sutherland does next. Juror
Ironically everyone needs to be negative 10 for 50 years to get back to what we once were lol
So basically how i see it is its all about money and no difference is being made
Replacing fossil fuels with solar is a legitimate carbon offset. However, planting more trees is like throwing a sponge into an overflowing bathtub without turning off the faucet. If you don't turn off the faucet, all the sponges in the world won't save you. Trees are great for the *LOCAL ENVIRONMENT,* but planting trees does *NOTHING AT ALL* to end the extraction and burning of fossil fuels. Focus on transitioning to a clean, sustainable power grid as soon as possible. The rest is noise.
I understand you point and it is mostly valid. I did my masters degree as a forester in this. It all comes down to what is the end use of the trees. If a tree is eventually burned you are 100% correct. But in some cases the tree gets turned into a 200+ year sink be being turned into valuable projects (expensive furniture, some houses) and then finding their way into a deep landfill. But in my opinion the secondary benefits are more important, its bringing important money to often poor communities around the world to help them be proper stewards of the land which in it self is frequently a long term carbon sink in the soil.
@@ethansklom6661 Projects that focus on biodiversity, reversing desertification, and fixing soil erosion are generally very beneficial to both nature and humans.
Projects that plant trees to capture carbon consistently fail and sometimes even damage the local ecosystem.
Not to mention planting a tree and regarding it as x amount of carbon being taken out. X being the amount of carbon sequestration in the trees entire life. is bogus. because there is no follow up by the company that first plants the tree to ensure it is maturing properly and contributing to its ecosystem. The companies planting trees are not stewards of the land in which they plant on. Which almost guarantees the environmental capital in which is claimed to be created isn't.
@@simitraining8987 what effect does wifi, particularly 5G, have on the life and health of plant life, organisms, and trees. I see alot of dead or dying trees in my city. I believe going high tech also has its disadvantages too, but are not being accounted for with Carbon Credits.
For instance lithium mining for batteries.
Poor communities around the world don't need money because they expand. They shouldn't be given any help so they wither @@ethansklom6661
so these are similar to recycling plastics....
NO to carbon tax.
what a jokeonly the dems think you can cut 6 inches off the top of a blanket and sew it on the bottom and think you have a bigger blanket
I liked you better as a press secretary to President Kirkman.
All business you know
Wait. WHY is Kumar on here?
Which one is strictly for the Elites????
I chose that one.
Harold and Kumar and the great Carbon Cartel
All of the major Forest fires in the last 20 years were due to not cleaning up the dried ded wood this poor forest management all the flooding is due to the reclaiming of marsh land and or the sea and not doing enough to keep the water from backing up or braking through the flood enhancements. Holland land mass is mostly under the sea level and they don't get flooded, most of Tokyo japan is all reclaimed land from the sea as well and they don't have flooding issue. Even with all the forest fires the earth has greened by 20% due to higher CO2 levels that the equivalent of the contental USA anyone anti CO2 are anti human if the CO2 levels drop below 150 ppm we are all dead
It’s a complete fraud
Easy on the coca bud 🍚
shell? really?
These guy's can even make fake companies.. buy more carbon use
Reduce your emissions. If you do emit, make sure you buy carbon removal and not the majority of offsets.
The problem with carbon credits is the false belief that controlling carbon will do anything at all.
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I want to ask that, which of carbon offset and decarbonization is the best option?
Do you mean which companies or in a biological sense what methods can be employed to offset the most atmospheric carbon?
Biochar from wood waste that would have been left or burnt - turn it into biochar and work it into farmland to improve soil structure - sequesters carbon and reduces fertilizer leaching builds organic matter etc .but the red tape from the so called organizations that are screaming climate change is insane , not even allowed to compost on a farm without spending millions
@@2748941exactly and it’s that that exposes this scam for what it is.
Carbon offsets from destruction of high global warming refrigerants ?
If and only if we were able to create renewables and gris energy storage cheaper than fossil fuels, we will be able to avoid the catastrophic effect of climate change
Massive utility-scale battery storage is *ALREADY* in operation and lots more is on the way.
_“California’s batteries provided more power - over 3,360 megawatts - than the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, the state’s largest electric generator, which tops out at 2,250.”_ - LA Times (2022-09-13)
@@DemPilafian today Sollarpv plus battery energy storage is much more expensive than fossil fuels
Murderers should be able to sell carbon credits due to their victims not producing any more carbon waste. Got rich by being a serial killer.
Liked when he escaped with his buddy from Guantanomo Bay
Physics can't be negotiated.
Get back on the bongs bro
in other words climate change is just a business?!
Have you felt the heat? Do you see the lack of snow? What an insane comment
@@NMPT777 Sheep always amazed me, once one falls of the cliff, they all follow....
@@NMPT777 we still get heat waves and snow , it just fit into the time scale that we are used to as seasons. That’s not consistent with global warming but is consistent with a shift in the Gulf Stream or a shift of the earths axis. In the ice age what changed for the planet to become what it then became before the industrial revolution? All of the climate scientists predictions over the last thirty years have been fear mongering and so far off the mark . Is it any wonder that people don’t trust them?
So trees dont off set co2??
Spare me… 🙄
No it isn't
Carbon credit! When a pyramid collapses in the West, another is built!
it's almost like social credits
That’s exactly what it is , just like the jab passport. Most of the data collected on the UK app had nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not you had been jabbed. Then on top of that it turns out it made no difference in respect of transmission or prevention when it came to being jabbed or not.
Bloomberg where is the quality content you use to Post.
Don't listen to this stoner
"Don't listen to this stoner" Uhh, the science and math proves he is right.
@@karlwheatley1244 He's an actor from the movie Harold and Kumar go to white castles
@@Shotcaller71 "He's an actor from the movie Harold and Kumar go to white castles" Which would be a meaningless ad hominem attack. He was also the White House press secretary in Designated Survivor but I don't confuse him for the characters he plays. Rather, I'm a senior university researcher who has studied the unraveling of the web of life for more than a decade, and what he is saying is correct.
@karlwheatley1244 no need to get your knickers in a knot I don't care how smart you think you are
@@karlwheatley1244 is that the science that they “ own “ or real science? You do realise that science is constantly evolving based on new evidence? It is also based on peer review , if you seek to discredit the peers that don’t agree with you then that’s not science.
Liked him better in the stoner movies🗯🗯💛
Yes. Better than spreading Climate Hysteria.
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