Considering how much excise taxes Europeans pay on their gasoline, you would think that climate change would already be a solved issue. Taxes are a larger part of the cost of gasoline than the gasoline itself. Yet somehow there isn't enough money to fight climate change?! The Netherlands pays $3.53 per gallon purely in excise taxes.[0] Bulgaria, a country with an average income of $9000 a year[1], pays $1.61 a gallon in excise taxes.
They do not address the fundamental causes of emissions which are steadily growing.
They have some merits for mitigation of the problem but not as a long-term solution
We cut forests, and burned oil. Offsets help revert one of these things. But, we’d need to do more than that to reverse the change.
So the offsets you can buy now are low hanging fruit. Actual carbon sucking costs vastly more than wren’s offsets.
Though still achiveble? Would be about $10,000 usd per person at average european emissions. About $20,000 usd per person at average american emisisons. Includes children.
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If those costs go down, the costs become realistic. I don’t mean politically realistic, just possible to do.
Fwiw I use both wren and climeworks. And maybe if enough people used wren they might find non-forest offsets that are achievable at low cost. But right now it wouldn’t obviously scale if all did it.
So... you're saying that there's not an accumulation of plastic waste / microplastics in the environment, or that we know any impacts or benign or negligible?
Good news if true, would like to know what position there's the most credible evidence for.
> and "landfills = bad".
I'm a fan of consumer goods, so naturally it's convenient for me if landfills == good, but I also tend to wonder (a) exactly how effectively they isolate waste issues from, say, groundwater or other environmental circulation and (b) if there might be some volume threshold past which landfills aren't an adequate solution for addressing waste streams.
We are only now starting to measure up the microplastics impact and their origin. Switching to reusable cups is a drop in the ocean, when tons of the stuff is released by simply washing clothes or makeup off your face.
> wont be solved while big economies decide to export their waste
Western countries do not have proper regulations if one of the possible outcome for waste is to be exported where those regulations do not exist.