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It's fun to imagine all the 'market solutions' libs after 50 years of thinking they had solved everything and the planet was carbon neutral 
this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
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It's as if it was impossible to turn externalised costs into a functioning market. Because all the most successful sellers in that market will.. externalise their costs.
Carbon credits is one of the funniest concepts ever. Like how anybody can take the “””market””” seriously after learning of such thing deserves to get their heads smashed in. Such a cartoonishly stupid scam but yet somehow managed to trick rubes into thinking it’ll save them from disaster if companies just traded permission slips back and forth
But that's not allowed
My econ teacher lied to me
The company that hid evidence of carbon emissions on the climate?? 
and they aint even the only ones
enron was also in the bogus carbon trading game btw
weird how it worked for acid rain but never worked again
Well, we tried neoliberal market incentives, guess we have to start choppin' execs, right? Surely we won't just double down on just giving the rich more money for free, right? 
