@pluralistic No, buying carbon credits would NOT make its crimes nonfraudulent. All use of #CarbonCredits is fraud. Carbon credits are and always were a deliberate and intentional fraud, and everyone in the carbon credit business is well aware of that.

"Carbon offsets for Tesla cars generated billions in carbon offsets for Elon Musk, and allowed SUVs to escape regulations that would otherwise have seen them pulled from the market." Here's @pluralistic , nearly a year ago, explaining why you should stay away from carbon offset, and demand actual emissions reduction instead. https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/carbon-upsets/#big-tradeoff

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Excellent piece about algorithmic price gouging (& why #CarbonCredits don't work) from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

" #SurveillancePricing, supercharged by algorithms, represent a serious threat to 'prices,' which is the one thing that the econo-religious fundamentalists of the #capitaliss class value above all else."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/24/gouging-the-all-seeing-eye/#i-spy