THE VIDEO SHELF · carbon offsets
Carbon Offsets! Can't we just buy our way out of climate change?
Climate Town's comedic explainer on carbon offsets and whether companies can buy their way out of climate change. It argues that offsets won't save us, while granting they are not bad in principle.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN shares it as an entertaining, well-argued critique of carbon offsetting in threads on greenwashing.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Climate Town
- Topic
- carbon offsets
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Carbon footprints are a scam: [LINK] Carbon offsets are a scam: [VIDEO] Hearing people talk about these give me the same vibes as techbros talking about stocks and crypto.
baxuz on Hacker News · 2022-07
In Launch HN: Bend (YC S22) – Automatically measure your company's carbon footprint> Carbon offsetting is needlessly and cynically attacked by the same people who talk about wind power killing birds or not recycling the blades. well i don't really understand how you can lump all those together but ok... they're still not the same. as others …
rmvt on Hacker News · 2023-02
In Vestas unveils solution to end landfill disposal for wind turbine blades
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