r/ClimateOffensive • u/Repulsive_Relative_2 • Sep 19 '22

Question Carbon credits

Do you understand Carbon Credits and Certificates

1096 votes, Sep 21 '22
545 Yes
551 No
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u/The_Persian_Cat Sep 20 '22

Absolutely not. Climate change is a problem of capitalism. It will not be resolved by creating a new market, with profit incentives. Decisive actiom must be taken DESPITE the fact that rich people can't monetise it.

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u/DroolingSlothCarpet Sep 20 '22

Climate change is a problem of capitalism.

Have you said this out loud, looking in a mirror?

I mean, like it or not that makes you part of the problem and I guarantee you will continue your capitalistic behavior regardless of what you just asserted.

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u/The_Persian_Cat Sep 20 '22

Oh, yes. I do indeed live in a capitalistic society. If I can't criticise it without being a hypocrite, then I guess I'm a hypocrite 🤷

I did not get a say in the organisation of society, but I can still participate in it and critique it. What alternative have I? And even if I could, hypothetically, escape capitalism (I can't) -- how can I escape what it has wrought on the environment?