George Monbiot: Carbon offsetting is not warding off environmental collapse – it’s accelerating it / Oliver Milman: Joe Manchin attracts global anger over climate crisis
There is nothing that cannot be corrupted, nothing good that cannot be transformed into something bad. And there is no clearer example than the great climate land grab. We now know that it’s not enough to leave fossil fuels in the ground and decarbonise our economies. We’ve left it too late. To prevent no more than 1.5C of heating, we also need to draw down some of the carbon already in the atmosphere.
By far the most
effective means are “nature-based
solutions”: using the restoration of living systems such as forests, salt
marshes, peat bogs and the seafloor to extract carbon dioxide from the air and
lock it up, mostly in trees or waterlogged soil and mud. Three years ago, a
small group of us launched the Natural Climate Solutions campaign to
draw attention to the vast potential for stalling climate breakdown and a sixth
mass extinction through the mass revival of ecosystems.
While it is hard to
see either climate or ecological catastrophe being prevented without such large-scale
rewilding, we warned that it should not
be used as a substitute for decarbonising economic life, or to allow
corporations to offset greenhouse gases that shouldn’t be produced in the first
place. We found ourselves having to shed a large number of partner
organisations because of their deals with offset companies…
Oliver Milman: Joe Manchin attracts global anger over climate crisis
Within the brutal machinations of US politics, Joe Manchin has been elevated to a status of supreme decision-maker, the man who could make or break Joe Biden’s presidency. Internationally, however, the Democratic senator’s new fame has been received with puzzlement and growing bitterness, as countries already ravaged by the climate crisis brace themselves for the US – history’s largest ever emitter of planet-heating gases – again failing to pass major climate legislation...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/26/joe-manchin-climate-crisis-global-villain
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Monbiot
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