Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/06/carbon-offsets-fail-cut-global-heating-intractable-systemic-problems-study
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Sanctus@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 341d
Turns out magic credits dont do shit. The only thing we can do at this point is degrowth. Which makes all the capitalist piggies gasp.
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 341d
Unsure if it's so much as degrowth but to alter our approach. Quite trying to scale up 1800 and 1900s tech and science and modernize our society and infrastructure. Creating loop systems rather than coal power and other poor energy sources.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 341d
The poor shareholders and CEOs. My heart goes out to them :(
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 341d
Well yeah any potential solution is going to mean reduced potential profit, which you could describe as degrowth, but that would be the worst possible way to describe it.
The reason why we haven't gotten anywhere with carbon reduction is because wealthy people block any efforts.
Telling them that degrowth is the solution is unlikely to motivate them.
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d
Thats okay, its not supposed to motivate them. Their power needs to be removed. They clearly cannot govern the world responsibly.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 341d
How do you propose to do that given the current slide into fascism?
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 341d
The first step would be to educate people with anarchist literature. It would be a process dismantling hierarchies without destroying our society of connectivity but I believe its possible. I believe people are, and are becoming more, altruistic on average otherwise civilization would not have been an emergent property of our collectivism.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 340d
I feel like you must have slipped through a rift in the time / space continuum and are visiting us from another reality.
In 2025, we're completely unable to expect "people" at large to engage in any kind of reasoning.
You can't just propose to "educate people with anarchist literature" like that's some kind of solution.
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/william-gillis-bad-people
If you feel you can't educate others, assist those who can. You'll never stop bad people from existing, but you can remove the ladders they seize to lord over us.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 340d
Poppycock.
SOULFLY98@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 340d
Carbon offsets are like net carbs. It's just bullshit to make people feel like they are doing something.