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Gas station app telling me to buy coca cola to help climate change (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It is the ultimate capitalist industry, billions of dollars predicated on the promise of not doing a thing you swear you totally would've done. It's like extortion but worse.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There's a program in germany where drivers of electric cars can sell their carbon offset, no such option however exists for not using a car and I think that's pretty much the whole thing in a nutshell

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

Wow. This comment just makes me realise that 'carbon offsets' are the modern equivalent of buying indulgences 500 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Probably rather tax you for not having a car

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah, pretty much. The Federal Enviromental Agency cites that every car is subsidized by about 5000€ a year on average via costs that drivers don't have to pay. Basically if you don't have a car a good chunk of your taxes go to somebody else for having one