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.