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Carbon Offsets (Taylor’s Version) | The pop star’s use of hazily defined offsets to deflect criticism perfectly illustrates how the offsets market works in practice. (newrepublic.com)
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[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you search on YouTube "carbon offsets", the first result is the piece John Oliver did, which if you haven't watched i really recommend you to.

Carbon Offsets

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

I always liken it to the anti-child/slave labor movement in the late 90s. Companies learned if they just sub-subcontract, they can use child and/or slave labor and just keep saying, “[GAP] vociferously objects to slave and child labor. And through our rigorous internal investigation, we have found that a company we hired has in turn hired a company that was participating in this disgusting act. We have officially severed ties with the contractor which so profoundly failed in their quality control and, in [GAP’s] humble opinion, in their morality.”

[GAP] spits on the idea of slave labor pointedly

camera flashes, press murmurs as spokesperson leaves stand

[GAP] hires the contractor under their new LLC and continues profiting from slave labor