By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026This process reminds me of the whole "carbon credit" fiasco. The answer to too many carbon emissions is to democratically decide to ban certain kinds of carbon emissions. But that would require states to *do* things, rather than simply "nudging" a process that is guided by "the market." 46/ 1122 12
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026So we end up with these junk "credits" that companies manufacture by promising not to log forests, many of which are already wildlife preserves and/or subsequently burn down: pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/c... 47/pluralistic.netPluralistic: The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate “solutions” (31 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 191 9
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026The best critique of this whole thing came in 2021 from the Climate Ad Project, who produced a short video in which people were allowed to kill one another provided they purchased "murder offsets": pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/f... 48/pluralistic.netPluralistic: 14 Apr 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1131 13