alt Hacker NewsWhat could "net zero" possibly mean other than "zero as a matter of accounting"? I definitely think meat and dairy companies should reduce emissions to the extent that they can, but you're not going to convince the cows to stop burping. If you accept the premise that people are going to keep on eating animal products (I'm aware that the authors may not!), offsets are the only option.
Could be a language thing, I'm Australian and that quote from my comment in full was
if it's going to be an accounting trick
My intenty there was to distinguish between "net zero as a matter of legitimate above board easy to follow accounting that can be audited (and pass)" and "net zero via a smoke and mirrors accounting deception with a few divide by zeros and some of the same logic from the proof that 1==2".
> but you're not going to convince the cows to stop burping.
Well, no - but you / we can introduce kangaroo gut biota to cows.