How ‘carbon cowboys’ are cashing in on protected Amazon forest
wapo.st
A six-month investigation reveals that many carbon credit ventures reap profits from public lands they have no right to and fail to share revenue with those protecting the forest.

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    8·
    4 months ago

    Carbon credits are a scam. At best, they allow companies to market “carbon neutrality” to placate consumer guilt so they can keep producing and selling at the usual ever-increasing rate.

    It’s little more than an excuse to not hit the brakes on the luxury industry.

    At worst, they are a straight up lie.

  • grandma
    5·
    4 months ago

    Woah who could have ever seen this coming

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    4·
    4 months ago

    Okay, jail those responsible.

    We’re taking about our climate here, not a fraud with the % of berries in jam.

    If I write bad checks I can go to jail, They’re actively sabotaging our survival, put Them. Away. In. Jail.