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98% of all recent environmental claims can be categorized as "greenwashing"

24 pointsby robtherobbertoday at 11:25 AM16 commentsview on HN

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ericpauleytoday at 1:09 PM

“from the world’s largest meat and dairy companies”

Title length limits are tough but this is pretty critical context.

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time4teatoday at 1:12 PM

Carbon offsetting is a nonsense.

Any company that uses it, is doing nothing other than buying a grant to pollute.

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awediseetoday at 2:21 PM

This is important. If knowledge is power then shared knowledge is EMPOWERING.

I can't speak for everyone but I think its beyond time that 'we the people' become empowered and I think the begins with truthful science.

I read an article recently which I will share here shortly about a woman named Elizabeth Bik who has made it their career chasing after fake or untrue scientific publications.

Ita a wild world we are living in. Good to know people are out there fighting for the rest of us.

vivzkestreltoday at 3:14 PM

- i asked a question very recently like what would happen to emissions if the whole world went vegan

- feel free to check my history and join the discussion on it

- do you think we ll cut down emissions by 60%?

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pingoutoday at 12:48 PM

I wouldn't qualify "These commitments appear to rely on offsetting carbon emissions rather than decarbonizing directly" as greenwashing, although it is indeed a bit misleading.

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