• Turun@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    If hell is real and you get out by praying then this is not a scam. So if climate change is real and it is stopped by emitting less carbon then carbon offsets are not a scam?

    So you are either saying climate change is just something to believe in and therefore carbon offsets are a scam, because they fight a problem that is not real.
    Or you are a religious person and are saying that climate change is real, and that carbon offsets are useful, despite them being clearly a scam.
    Or you are saying that the medieval system was actually a scam, because the monks did not pray as they said they would. But then this is actually a medieval meme, criticising monks for knowingly lying to people, and completely irrelevant in modern times.

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      1 year ago

      Or they’re saying that regardless of whether or not heaven and hell are real, both carbon offsets and indulgences are a self-serving practice run by corrupt institutions allowing wealthy people to be publicly absolved from the harm they continue to do.