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It's rich people trying to look less guilty about their massive carbon footprint. | It's rich people trying to look less guilty about their massive carbon footprint. | ||
Carbon offsetting is false utilitarianism, because the amount of carbon in the world that can actually be "offset" is extremely limited. This basically functions like a zero-sum game: | Carbon offsetting is false utilitarianism, because the amount of carbon in the world that can actually be "offset" is extremely limited. This basically functions like a zero-sum game: Every ton of carbon you offset is a ton of carbon that someone else ''can't'' offset. This manifests itself economically as a bidding war (which is why carbon offsetting is so expensive that only rich people do it). | ||
At the end of the day, we have to actually emit less carbon. | At the end of the day, we have to actually emit less carbon. | ||
==See also== | |||
* [[Carbon capture]] | |||
* [[Climate change]] | |||
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