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- #Plastic Water Bottle Environmental Destruction
- #Documentary Insight
- #Amazon Indigenous People's Suffering
- #Carbon Credits
- #Carbon Pirates
No Sustainable Earth - Carbon Pirates // Source: KBS
As everyone around the world knows, we are in the era of the climate crisis. Global companies are pledging 'carbon neutrality' without exception. There are two main ways for companies to achieve carbon neutrality.
* One is for companies to make every effort to reduce their own carbon emissions as much as possible, create eco-friendly products, and make many efforts internally.
* The other is to purchase 'carbon credits' to achieve zero emissions.
Carbon credits are about purchasing environmental rights. // Source: KBS
It is very challenging for companies to make every effort to reduce their own carbon emissions. They must pour research and development funds into creating eco-friendly products, replace them with eco-friendly products even if the cost increases, and make efforts to prevent greenhouse gas emissions.
Therefore, they purchase a lot of 'carbon credits'. How do they purchase them?
A village in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest // Source: KBS
They purchase the forests of the Peruvian Amazon, which has been naturally rich in forests. The problem is that they are driving out the indigenous people who have lived there and destroying the forest for 'carbon credits'. The indigenous people were not destroying the forest in the first place. They were people who hunted and cooked food in a natural way.
They are not replanting trees on desertified land or engaging in activities for the environment. It is simplypurchasing.
Displaced Amazonian indigenous people // Source: KBS
That's why global companies that purchase carbon credits are called 'carbon pirates'.
It takes ¼ of the oil in a plastic water bottle to make one. The global consumption of bottled water is 455.2 billion liters. Multinational companies have been able to launch 'carbon-neutral water', 'carbon-neutral engine oil', etc. through the purchase of these carbon credits.
Recently, an environmental group in Germany filed a lawsuit against about 40 companies that have attached the 'carbon-neutral' label to their products.
"Amount of oil needed to produce 1 bottle of water" → "1/4 the size of the bottle" // Source: KBS
When you go to a German supermarket these days, you get the feeling that the climate crisis has already been solved.
Because every product has a 'climate-neutral' label on it.It looks like there are no more environmental problems.
Matthias Walter / German Environmental Aid (DUH)During an interview with a spokesperson
There are many other interesting stories. You can find the full video on YouTube.
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