Carbon offsets are greenwashing.
It depends on whether not the carbon offsets are verified.
For example by the American Carbon Registry, by the Climate Action Action Reserve or by the Gold Standard.
In this case Ecosia is a certified B corporation and the founder Christian Kroll has given up on the right to sell Ecosia or take any profits from the company.
No, all carbon offsets are greenwashing. A 0.0001% increase to the carbon absorption matters piss all when there’s 2 million times that being released per second. The only real solution is to stop the engines producing the carbon. Remember the start of COVID when capitalism was put on pause for a few weeks? It’s has been the only effective climate action ever implemented and it was done so by complete accident.
Search engines which are basically just middle-manning google except they plant trees have been a known grift for decades at this point.
I agree that not putting carbon in the air is the best thing we can do
We should switch to public transit and shut down all new oil developments.
Planting trees is a proven way to capture carbon.
But there are thousands of methods of combatting climate change, this doesn’t get in the way of the other things.
It’s still false consciousness which satiates our appetite for change while not actually doing anything meaningful.
What is your suggestion then? If you know so much.
This is a method to to sequest carbon. We shouldn’t being doing the same things and expect different results, look were that got us today.
You could argue the money might be better spent investing in low carbon energy. Acting as an investment fund for companies and individuals that want to increase their solar capacity but don’t have the funds to do so. That way they’re helping to stop carbon getting into the atmosphere in the first place.
What is your suggestion then? If you know so much.
I used to use this til I found out it sends data straight to Google.
They use Bing as a backend. So it’ll be Microsoft if anyone.
Thanks, I couldn’t remember if it was Google or Bing.
It uses both bing and google providers.
They do use google as a search provider but when you click on the ads on Ecosia the profits are used for planting trees.
