• trollercoaster
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    5 months ago

    That’s one of the problems of the Greens, they and their voters are largely a relatively wealthy urban bubble who see three trees and think that’s nature. That’s why a lot of their environmental policy is based on greenwashing shit like CO2 certificate trading and subsidies to new electric cars only rich people can afford in the first place.

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      5 months ago

      CO2 certificates don’t attempt to greenwash, but to artificially give pollution a price. That way companies have a financial incentive to lower their CO2 pollution. And at the end of the day money is all companies care about.

      • barsoap@lemm.eeOP
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        5 months ago

        The whole system is a joke if there’s too many certificates around, though, for whatever reason.