If you’re confused by the carbon offsets scheme, that’s the effect it’s supposed to have on you.

The piece makes it easier to understand— or easier to see through might be a better way of putting it.

“…nearly all ‘Australian Carbon Credit Units’ (ACCUs) ‘avoid’ emissions, rather than actively removing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it permanently underground. That means nothing is physically ‘neutralised’. The logic that one harm is undone by paying someone else to decide not to harm is absurd in every single other corner of society, but in the fantastical world of neoliberal carbon markets, it’s accepted as normality.”

#climate #accu #carboncredits #auspol #emissions #greeneswashing

https://reneweconomy.com.au/labors-safeguard-policy-is-a-mirror-image-of-fossil-industry-greenwashing/