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[hackerlight]

A comparison would be the incentives around tax filing. Everyone has the financial incentive to cheat, but the enforcement is good enough (probability of being caught * punishment) that most people don't. The question is: how good is the enforcement mechanism as applied to sellers of carbon credits, and what is the added cost to the taxpayer of setting up such a system.

[portaouflop → hackerlight]

There is no enforcement mechanism and the whole idea was very very stupid from the beginning.

You can’t offset or capture emissions that way, it just can’t be done - the whole idea is rotten from the core.

Let’s concentrate on what is feasible - producing less emissions in the first place.

Carbon capture etc just gives us the illusion

[lozenge → portaouflop]

Carbon capture is real, carbon offsetting isn't. Offsetting is like making a "saving" by not buying something and then immediately spending the money you "saved".