| None of this works. Our carbon emissions continue to grow. Every year is larger than the last. The largest year for emissions in human history was 2022. The next will be 2023, and then 2024 will beat it. Our rate of growth is slowing, but we continue to grow. It is possible that by 2050 we stop beating our previous records. Possible. Probably not. That wasn’t a typo. We will continue to emit more carbon than we did the previous year for at least another 25 years. Certificates are bullshit. Brazil ‘selling’ its rainforest carbon offsets to China is bullshit. There isn’t a resolution here. There’s no answer, currently. It looks like we’re just fucked. We have decent power generation solutions but no grid to accept them. China and the like want to grow, they want to use coal, and who are we to say no? We did it. Should we expect them not to? No individual can make any difference at all while the major economies of the latter half of this century invest — as in, start to build, today — dozens of coal-fired power stations. It might even be hundreds. It saddens me to think about looking it up, so I’m not going to. Worrying about the carbon cost of your app is a nice thought, but nothing more. It’s functionally pointless. |
As for "China and the like want to grow", they shouldn't and the countries who already emitted a lot of CO2 should have a certificate debt that they need to pay back, slowing their economies down, which would also let the others catch up.