Mar 18

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The market for carbon credit lemons

Bad money drives out good.

The idea of selling indulgences — the right to sin, for a price — has been controversial for the past 500+ years, since Jan Hus’s condemnation of the practice. And yet here we are, in the age of carbon offsets, where forgiveneess for torching the planet is for sale.

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