A primer on carbon pricing and carbon border adjustments
Carbon pricing and carbon offsets are the equivalent of putting a band-aid on a patient dying of blood loss because its legs have been cut off.<p>By all accounts its already too late to stop the warming of the planet and we will have to learn to live with the consequences of our actions for the foreseeable future.<p>Even with wildfires raging across the northern hemisphere this year and in the southern hemisphere last year we keep on digging more coal and oil from the ground.<p>We keep on acting as if its business as usual. Move along, nothing to see here.<p>And no, renewable energy is not going to save us. We wont even reach 45% of renewable energy production worldwide for another 20 years at best.<p>Our global population keeps on increasing and we are depleting our natural resources at an ever faster pace than before therefore increasing deforestation and carbon emission.<p>All of this done in order to satisfy the need for our economies to grow no matter what the cost on our habitat is, and threatening a million species of animals&#x2F;insects in the process.<p>There is a garbage island in the pacific and there will be soon more plastic in the ocean than fish. What a depressing thought.<p>If only we were the rational creatures that we think we are, maybe we would stop this madness and realize that we are driving at full speed towards a cliff.<p>I am afraid there is no hope for us.