Here is a list I have formed:
-Switch to Esim
-Build more apartments
-Use shampoo/conditioner bars
-Put carbon labels on products
-Buy stuff at the store
-Eat plant based
-Prioritize transit over cars
-Switch to Ecosia
-Recycle
-Give homemade gifts
-Compost
-Be organized
-Avoid synthetic cloths
-Switch to green burials
-Buy reputable carbon credits
-Mandate microfibre filters for washing machines
-Install Linux on old computers
-Switch to Electric car -Shut down all oil operations
-Pickup litter
-Ride your bicycle instead of the car
-Adopt kids and companions instead
-Build more green spaces
-Convert animal agriculture land to wild lands
-Support repairability
-Ban private jets
What you are talking about is the way companies act using carbon credit to prevent actually taking measures against climate change. It has nothing to do with carbon credits themselves Thats like saying water is bad because someone somewhere posioned a river.
There are a lot of reputable climate programs that actually provably reduce co2 emissions by the claimed amounts, and Im not talking about ‘Ill give you 100$ to not burn 1t of co2 so you burn it tomorrow’ projects. If I as a private person buy 10t of carbon credit, that doesnt mean I have to burn 10t of CO2 before.
Carbon credits is a way to treat companies with kid gloves and ask them nicely not to destroy the planet. Instead we should just have hard well enforced regulations and emissions caps. not “Cap and Trade”, “Cap or Else”, If a company consistently can’t meet emissions targets Nationalize it pierce the cooperate veil and prosecute its management.
You didnt even read my comment, did you? Also, you should do some research about carbon credits if youre gonna start a discussion about them because it seems you dont really know what those are
Anything that a carbon credit program reduces could be done without the carbon credit, but there are many carbon credit programs that accomplish nothing except acting as a smokescreen.