I always liken it to the sub-sub contracting retail giants finally did during the 90s and Jenny mccarthy’s crusade against child and slave labor.
These same retailers kept getting caught using unsafe factories in developing countries with children and people suffering basically indentured servitude. So, they came up with the idea to, basically, change the name.
They shoved the responsibility onto someone else—someone they hired specifically to shoulder the blame. So these fly by night companies would be “cut out” of the process when GAP was caught using child slaves again. “We conducted our own investigation and found the culprit to be ‘Downstream Company 7’ and we have severed ties with DS7.” And then a few months later, “We conducted our own investigation and found the culprit to be ‘Downstream Company 8’ and we have severed ties with DS8.”
They’re continuing on with business as usual because business relies on those low costs and zero accountability. This is all carbon credits are. “We have conducted our own investigation and found that ‘Carbon Offsetter 1’ didn’t plant any of the 8,982,758 trees needed to offset our emissions. We have cut ties with CO1.”
It’s all a shell game. They don’t give a shit about offsetting their emissions. They give a shit about profit and greenwashing. And they’re doing both.
I always liken it to the sub-sub contracting retail giants finally did during the 90s and Jenny mccarthy’s crusade against child and slave labor.
These same retailers kept getting caught using unsafe factories in developing countries with children and people suffering basically indentured servitude. So, they came up with the idea to, basically, change the name.
They shoved the responsibility onto someone else—someone they hired specifically to shoulder the blame. So these fly by night companies would be “cut out” of the process when GAP was caught using child slaves again. “We conducted our own investigation and found the culprit to be ‘Downstream Company 7’ and we have severed ties with DS7.” And then a few months later, “We conducted our own investigation and found the culprit to be ‘Downstream Company 8’ and we have severed ties with DS8.”
They’re continuing on with business as usual because business relies on those low costs and zero accountability. This is all carbon credits are. “We have conducted our own investigation and found that ‘Carbon Offsetter 1’ didn’t plant any of the 8,982,758 trees needed to offset our emissions. We have cut ties with CO1.”
It’s all a shell game. They don’t give a shit about offsetting their emissions. They give a shit about profit and greenwashing. And they’re doing both.