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   Alina (eled_nil@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 11:46:17 JST Alina

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   @GreenFire cite an article from an association that praises itself, and no, that is definitely not enough for me to change my mind. So, what do I find when researching Ghana? Two articles with good references, and honestly, it doesn’t seem like a great idyll: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/ghana-emissions-tax-carbon-levy-climate-hypocrisy-punish-citizens-government/ ---
   https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationaldevelopment/2023/05/30/article-6-2-carbon-markets-in-ghana-a-bright-future-for-a-shadowy-business/

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     Alina (eled_nil@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 11:46:18 JST Alina

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     @GreenFire forgive me, but you don’t know me at all. I’ve been following this topic for years, and a study on Science seems much more reliable to me than many discussions. I always change my mind, but I need concrete evidence, data, and facts, and right now carbon capture is not sufficiently tested, with many doubts about the long-term consequences within the scientific community. You mention Ghana without providing data, and moreover, you >>

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     Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 11:46:19 JST Kevin Leecaster

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     @eled_nil
     Personally, rather than forest protection, I am a bigger fan of soil carbon protection and augmentation.

     In particular, biochar production and its sequestration has the potential to take billions and billions of tons of carbon pollution out of our thin, precious atmosphere and keep it out for a thousand years or more. 
     https://www.climateactionreserve.org/blog/2024/05/14/newly-adopted-biochar/

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     Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 11:46:20 JST Kevin Leecaster

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     @eled_nil
     You have shown me that you have "researched" some anecdotes and extrapolated from them.

     While I've been on the internet long enough to know that I won't change a mind as made up as yours appears to be there are areas that are benefiting from the growing sustainable circular economy of carbon credits.

     For example, Ghana has earned $4.8 million for reducing nearly 1 million tons of carbon emissions caused by deforestation with up to $45 million expected by the end of 2024.

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     Alina (eled_nil@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 11:46:21 JST Alina

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     @GreenFire I do thorough research and I don't follow propaganda. Simply put, any verification of the effectiveness of carbon credits has shown that they are unreliable. There are numerous scandals where companies offering these credits are also involved in intimidation and threats against local populations.
     Some interesting reading:

     https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj6951
     https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe

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     Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 11:46:22 JST Kevin Leecaster

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     @eled_nil
     Also, just calling carbon credits greenwashing w/o addressing what you find objectionable about the particular science behind the direct air capture and sequestration technology is how I know that your opposition to this crucial component of a circular sustainable economy is how I can identify it as being caused by brainwashing.

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     Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 11:46:23 JST Kevin Leecaster

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     @eled_nil
     Sorry that you've fallen for the propaganda. Carbon credits are becoming reliable with better monitoring, reporting, and verification.

     Everyone should be offsetting the carbon dioxide they are still emitting after the concentration of carbon dioxide in our thin, precious atmosphere exceeded 350 ppm.

     I understand though since cynicism as an ideology has seemed to grow so popular over the last few years.

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     Alina (eled_nil@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 11:46:24 JST Alina

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     @GreenFire unfortunately, carbon credits are unreliable; it's greenwashing 😞

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     Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 11:46:25 JST Kevin Leecaster

     Frontier, a public benefit corporation owned by Stripe, has facilitated its fourth round of carbon removal pre-purchases from nine companies as part of their effort to help jumpstart this new emerging circular economy market.

     They work in the field of Direct Air Capture rather than the more controversial field of Carbon Capture btw.
     https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exterra-carbon-solutions-secures-frontier-130000289.html