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by shawndrost
2527 days ago
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I understand your reservations about this being done by a for-profit. I don't understand your opposition to the idea of individuals contributing to carbon offset projects. It seems like the reservations you've expressed (it's not a whole solution, it's not feasible for people earning less than $2 per day, it might have too much of a "feel good" effect, etc) are equally true of many ideas you'd probably like, including the ideas you put forward yourself. I liked this part of your comment: "RUN THE NUMBERS please". I did. Illuminating! My back-of-napkin: Global CO2 emissions were 10b tons (10 Gigatonnes) in 2014 (https://www.co2.earth/global-co2-emissions)
$4.5B per month * 12mo = ~$50 billion per year
Carbon offset costs vary wildly. That's the big Q. You will have to do your own research on this, but to me, $100 per ton seems conservative, and $10 seems very generous.
If Wren collects $5B per month, and offsets cost $100 per ton, they would offset 5% of 2014-level annual emissions. (Probably less than our annual increase.)
If offsets cost $10 per ton, it's 50% -- more meaningful!
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My opposition is that for every 1$ you give Wren, they pocket 20 cents and then hand 80 cents off to another organization (of their choosing) with, as far as I can tell from their site, zero information on how your money is being applied, who exactly they are giving it to, if that organization is for or non-profit and how much they are spending on overhead before actually doing something with the money, etc. Right now there are vague mentions of stopping illegal logging, and that's it. Doesn't say what company, what organizations, what countries, how or who.
What they do document well, is their roadmap... how they want to spend your money internally, not directly to some sort of carbon sequestration efforts.
They want to:
- make it easy to unsubscribe from wren
- increase site performance internationally
- add sharing features
- add how to change your subscription to their FAQ
- handle declined card errors
Great, but what are you doing with the other 80% of the money someone gives you?