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Review: There is no sustainable Earth, Part 1 Carbon Pirates
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- Corporations purchase carbon credits to reduce carbon emissions, but this is an act that threatens the lives of indigenous people and does not actually help improve the environment.
- Especially, as more and more companies are launching carbon-neutral products by purchasing carbon credits, consumers are misled into thinking that environmental problems have been solved.
- German environmental groups are suing companies with carbon-neutral labels, pointing out the problems with carbon credit trading.
There is no sustainable Earth - Carbon Pirates // Source: KBS
As everyone knows, we are in an era of climate crisis. Global corporations are promising 'carbon neutrality' without exception. There are two main ways for corporations to achieve carbon neutrality.
* One is for companies to directly make every effort to reduce carbon emissions, manufacture eco-friendly products, and make many efforts internally.
* The other is to buy 'carbon credits' to make it zero.
Carbon credits are buying the right to be good for the environment. // Source: KBS
It is very difficult for companies to directly make every effort to reduce carbon emissions. They must invest in R&D to create eco-friendly products, replace them with eco-friendly products even if the cost goes up, and make efforts to prevent greenhouse gas emissions.
Therefore, they purchase a lot of 'carbon credits', the second method. How do they buy it?
Forest village in the Peruvian Amazon // Source: KBS
They buy the forests of the Peruvian Amazon, which originally had many forests. The problem is that they drive out the indigenous people who lived there, and they drive out the indigenous people who lived in the Amazon, saying that they should not destroy the forest for 'carbon credits'. The indigenous people had not been destroying the forest in the first place. They were the ones who hunted and cooked in a natural way.
It's not about planting trees again on desertified land or doing activities for the environment. It's just,purchasing.
Amazon indigenous people who were evicted // Source: KBS
That's why global companies that buy carbon credits are called 'carbon pirates'.
It takes ¼ of the oil in a plastic water bottle to make one plastic water bottle. Global water consumption is 455.2 billion liters. Multinational companies were able to launch 'carbon neutral water', 'carbon neutral engine oil', etc. through the purchase of these carbon credits.
Recently, a German environmental group has also filed a lawsuit against 40 companies labeled 'carbon neutral'.
"The amount of oil needed to make one bottle of water" → "One quarter of the size of the bottle" // Source: KBS
If you go to a German supermarket these days, you get the feeling that the climate crisis has already been resolved.
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 the interview
There are many other interesting stories. You can check all the videos on YouTube.
