it's always nice to have something confirmed that you already knew from vibes-based analysis
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Carbon offset is the NFT of environmental movement
That's an innovative idea. What if we combined the two?
Most? According to that graphic all carbon offset projects are a scam. It's just that for 8 of them where they couldn't confirm that they were a scam and for 3 of them they didn't have enough information to say if they were scams - which is to say they're probably even more of a scam than the others.
That graph is only the ones they looked at, which they say is about a third.
So there’s about 100 more scams that they didn’t even look in to.
The market has no incentive to solve the climate crisis. The market doesn't even need to convince anyone that it can solve the climate crisis. All the market needs to do is convince potential investors that it can convince a certain number of people that it can solve the climate crisis. And that's a lot easier than actually solving the climate crisis.
The market has no incentive to solve the climate crisis.
The market has incentive to take advantage of the climate crisis. 
pikas in the chat folx
This shouldn't even be news to 
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Even John Oliver was dunking on carbon offsets over a year ago. It's always been a bullshit smokescreen. Everybody knew it, and nobody cared.
There's a King of the Hill episode from like a decade ago dunking on it as well
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