[YokoZar]

"Buying grants to pollute" is literally how cap-and-trade systems work, and they've been extremely effective at reducing pollution. We don't hear about "acid rain" anymore because of cap-and-trade of sulfur dioxide.

But we don't really have cap-and-trade for carbon, so the next best thing is public pressure to be net-zero rather than literally zero.

[betaby]

> We don't hear about "acid rain" anymore

Because of the de-industrialization of the West.

[Legend2440]

More because we switched away from coal, and what coal we still use we pre-process to remove the sulfur.

[RetroTechie]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offsets_and_credits#Lim...

[mono442]

a cap-and-trade system is just a tax but more complicated and less predictable