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The @DailyMirror debunks the dysfunctional bullshit that is the offset industry, including #CORSIA and #REDD.

Chris Lang, @reddmonitor: "Aviation will try anything apart from leaving fossil fuels in the ground."
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@DailyMirror @reddmonitor We would like to pick out some quotes by Chris Lang @reddmonitor in this article.

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"The reason that the aviation and other large polluting industries like offsets is that they let them appear to be addressing climate change while at the same time continuing to burn fossil fuels."

"The one guaranteed thing that happens under carbon offsetting is that the carbon emissions still take place, because the flights still happen, meanwhile the offsetting may not succeed."

"In order to address the climate crisis the single most important thing we have to do is reduce emissions from burning fossil fuel, there's no way around that.

Aviation and other polluters will try anything apart from leaving fossil fuels in the ground."

"#CORSIA only kicks in in 2021, it's voluntary and only covers international aviation, not domestic flights."

"If you accept that the climate crisis is existential and we need to react quickly then the aviation industry is doing the opposite."

"Offsetting schemes like #REDD allow rich people in the north to continue their massively polluting lifestyles while having a serious impact on some of the poorest people on the planet because all of a sudden they are not allowed to clear a small area of forest to grow food."

"It's a direct conflict between the livelihoods in the north which are allowed to continue as normal, and the poorest of the poor in the global south."