• kobra@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I mean… okay. What if I took a $1 bill from you and replaced with 4 quarters? Would that be “money neutral”? These metaphors aren’t really clearing up my confusion.

    Does the EU want carbon neutral to mean “zero carbon emitted during manufacturing/shipping/etc”?

    If so, that’s fine and clears up my confusion.

    I just think a “zero carbon” moniker would make more sense than “carbon neutral” which (at least to me) infers some kind of offset.

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      1 year ago

      Not every CO2 “storage” is as stable as another one.

      The way CO2 output is “negated” is usually with poor, short term storage, that won’t actually help for climate change, in exchange for extracting extremely stable CO2 sources like petrol or coal