Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "How The "Net Zero" Investing Market Became Worthless Overnight" video.

@SoloRenegade Not to mention that the rules about what can and can't be put in which bin is unnecessarily confusing. In a lot of ways, it was easier in the past when we had to separate out the metal, glass and paper from the plastics. At least that way the paper, glass and metal went to the right place with the plastics being a problem. There isn't any consistent way of knowing what can and can't be recycled in terms of plastic due to those stupid sorting machines.
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That's more or less the issue. Even if they were going to take the trees down, that still shouldn't count, as most uses for trees other than for burning don't put the carbon back into the air anytime soon. Plus young trees remove far more CO2 than mature trees do. But, really, the issue here is that this is being done as a scam with insufficient work being put into ensuring that the figures are correct and that the savings do materialize. The result is that people think they're doing the right thing, but ultimately making the problem worse in cases where they could have bought a product that wasn't "carbon neutral" but turns out to have a smaller footprint anyways, or not buying it at all.
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@ferencmartinovic6267 There's a reason for that. Beyond that point, you just need exposure to the words being used in different ways and to develop the necessary language habits of how the words are used and to use them often enough that you're not thinking about the language. Plus, things like tone sandhi in Mandarin is extremely hard to teach as it's largely a byproduct of what happens when you start to speak more quickly, but not entirely. There are plenty of times where what's "grammatical" isn't what's correct. Or more to the point, isn't accepted as being correct. And people's opinions will differ. I personally get nagged a lot by grammarly for treating time like a place, but that's how I think of the world. The world has 4 dimensions to it, being in the right place at the wrong time is functionally the same as being in the wrong place at the right time.
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@Niosus It's not baffling. It would work if the projects that were being used as offsets did trap more than what your share of the emissions were in a reasonable time period. And that's the problem, even if the correct amount is trapped, it's often years later, which doesn't really help much with avoiding the upcoming problems. At best, that reduces the maximum problem.
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I've got an MA Education Studies as well as a TESL to go along with it and I think the only app I've encountered that seems to deliver would be fluent forever and only because it's based entirely around sentences and phrases with images for the meaning. But, even there, it has some issues in terms of a lot of the less concrete words being tough to create flashcards for. Personally, it didn't work that well for me, but that's mostly down to the way my brain works being a tad different. At the end of the day, none of these apps do the thing that people most need, as in actual communication with experienced users of the language. Although learning with texts is quite good for the reading component.
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@msimon6808 That's probably not that far off. Alcohol and tobacco alone are a pretty good chunk of the way there and we have a pretty lenient view of what exactly constitutes addiction to those as opposed to other substances.
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@monad_tcp I personally prefer to trust the scientists that overwhelmingly recognize the connection between the composition of the atmosphere and the temperature. I get that you're going the bold route of buying into propaganda produced by scientists funded by the people doing all the emitting and now politicians that are being paid by the same folks, but this is as settled as anything ever gets. It's not a question of what the relationship is, it';s a question of how quickly is it going to get bad, how bad is it going to get and how long to we have before that happens.
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@davidc8982 It's always going to be a part of the solution to anything significant. At bare minimum, it reduces the pressure to change the laws in negative ways. But, it was also always going to be a scam, as the small number of companies that are responsible for most of the impact here have a powerful incentive to not change.
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